The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 10
And having completed this parable, he identified the personages in the Birth-story as follows: “At that time the Brahman Vedabbha was the disobedient monk, but the pupil was I myself.”
Who acts: Monk, Birth story, Brahman Vedabbha, pupil · What happens: complete, identify, follow, be · To what, where: parable, personages, Birth story, disobedient monk, Teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monk, Birth story, Brahman Vedabbha, pupil), 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 | _ | 3 completed | cc |
| 2 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 completed | aux |
| 3 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 parable | det |
| 5 | parable | parable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 completed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 identified | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 identified | nsubj |
| 8 | identified | identify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 completed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 personages | det |
| 10 | personages | personage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 identified | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 story | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 13 | Birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 story | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Birth | punct |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 identified | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 follows | mark |
| 17 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 story | acl:relcl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 monk | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 monk | punct |
| 20 | At | at | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 monk | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Vedabbha | det |
| 24 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Vedabbha | compound |
| 25 | Vedabbha | Vedabbha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 monk | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 monk | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 monk | det |
| 28 | disobedient | disobedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 monk | amod |
| 29 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 completed | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 myself | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 myself | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 pupil | det |
| 33 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 myself | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 myself | cop |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 myself | nsubj |
| 36 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 monk | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 monk | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | gerund · perfect | this parable | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | identify | past | Monk | the personages | the Birth story | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent personage=Theme | |||
| 3 | follow | present | the Birth story not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | the Brahman Vedabbha | the disobedient monk | time | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is a in a quote | past | the pupil | the Teacher = teacher | I nsubj | tree rules |
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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