The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 104
“The heretics, O monks, the wandering ascetics, are blind, without eyes; know not good, know not evil; know not right, know not wrong.
Who acts: heretics · What happens: wonder, be, know · To what, where: good · 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 (heretics), 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 | _ | 13 blind | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heretics | det |
| 3 | heretics | heretic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 blind | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 monks | punct |
| 5 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 6 monks | case |
| 6 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heretics | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ascetics | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ascetics | det |
| 9 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 ascetics | amod |
| 10 | ascetics | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heretics | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heretics | punct |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 blind | cop |
| 13 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 eyes | punct |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 eyes | case |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 blind | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 know | punct |
| 18 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 blind | parataxis |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 good | advmod |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 know | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | ccomp |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 evil | advmod |
| 24 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 know | ccomp |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 know | conj |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 right | advmod |
| 28 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 know | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 know | punct |
| 30 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 know | parataxis |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 wrong | advmod |
| 32 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 know | ccomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 blind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the heretics and monks and the wandering ascetics | without eyes; blind property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | infinitive | good | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | know in a quote | infinitive | right property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | know in a quote | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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