The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 76
And through this same habit of disobedience, because you disregarded the words of wise men, you were cleft in twain with a sharp sword and left lying on the road.
Who acts: you · What happens: disregard, be, leave, lie, word · To what, where: words, twain, road, same habit, wise men
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 (you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 habit | cc |
| 2 | through | through | ADP | _ | 5 habit | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 habit | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 habit | amod |
| 5 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 disobedience | case |
| 7 | disobedience | disobedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 habit | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 disregarded | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 disregarded | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 disregarded | nsubj |
| 11 | disregarded | disregard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 habit | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 words | det |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 disregarded | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 men | case |
| 15 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 men | amod |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 words | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cleft | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 cleft | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cleft | cop |
| 20 | cleft | cleft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 disregarded | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 twain | case |
| 22 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cleft | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 sword | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sword | det |
| 25 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sword | amod |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cleft | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 left | cc |
| 28 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 disregarded | conj |
| 29 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 left | xcomp |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 road | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 road | det |
| 32 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lying | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 habit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disregard | past | you | the words of wise men | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | you | twain | with a sharp sword; cleft property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | leave | past | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | you not said here | the road | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on road=Location | ||||
| 6 | word | wise men | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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