The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 158
“Our teacher, because he disregarded my words, through his own habit of disobedience, through his own fault, has come to ruin.
Who acts: teacher, my, companion · What happens: disregard, come, ruin, word, fault · To what, where: words, own habit, own fault
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (teacher, my, companion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 disregarded | punct |
| 2 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 3 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disregarded | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 disregarded | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 disregarded | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 disregarded | nsubj |
| 7 | disregarded | disregard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 words | nmod:poss |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 disregarded | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 habit | punct |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 habit | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 habit | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 habit | amod |
| 14 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disregarded | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 disobedience | case |
| 16 | disobedience | disobedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 habit | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 come | punct |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 fault | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fault | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fault | amod |
| 21 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 come | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fault | punct |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 disregarded | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 ruin | mark |
| 26 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 come | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 disregarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disregard in a quote | past | Our teacher | my words | companion's own habit of disobedience | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · perfect | companion's own fault | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ruin in a quote | to-infinitive | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | fault in a quote | companion | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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