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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 136

“Precisely so, O monks, the heretics, the wandering ascetics, are blind, without eyes; know not good, know not evil; know not right, know not wrong.

Who acts: monks · 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 (monks), 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

punctadvmodadvmodpunctcasensubjpunctdetconjpunctdetamodconjpunctcoppunctcaseconjpunctparataxisadvmodobjpunctccompadvmodccomppunctconjadvmodxcomppunctparataxisadvmodccomppunctroot“PUNCTPreciselyADVsoADV,PUNCTOADPmonksNOUN,PUNCTtheDEThereticsNOUN,PUNCTtheDETwanderingVERBasceticsNOUN,PUNCTareAUXblindADJ,PUNCTwithoutADPeyesNOUN;PUNCTknowVERBnotPARTgoodADJ,PUNCTknowVERBnotPARTevilADJ;PUNCTknowVERBnotPARTrightADJ,PUNCTknowVERBnotPARTwrongADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_16 blindpunct
2PreciselypreciselyADV_3 soadvmod
3sosoADV_16 blindadvmod
4,,PUNCT_6 monkspunct
5OofADPAbbr=Yes6 monkscase
6monksmonkNOUNNumber=Plur16 blindnsubj
7,,PUNCT_9 hereticspunct
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 hereticsdet
9hereticshereticNOUNNumber=Plur6 monksconj
10,,PUNCT_13 asceticspunct
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 asceticsdet
12wanderingwonderVERBVerbForm=Ger13 asceticsamod
13asceticsasceticNOUNNumber=Plur9 hereticsconj
14,,PUNCT_6 monkspunct
15arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin16 blindcop
16blindblindADJDegree=Posrootroot
17,,PUNCT_19 eyespunct
18withoutwithoutADP_19 eyescase
19eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur16 blindconj
20;;PUNCT_21 knowpunct
21knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf16 blindparataxis
22notnotPARTPolarity=Neg23 goodadvmod
23goodgoodADJDegree=Pos21 knowobj
24,,PUNCT_25 knowpunct
25knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 knowccomp
26notnotPARTPolarity=Neg27 eviladvmod
27evilevilADJDegree=Pos25 knowccomp
28;;PUNCT_29 knowpunct
29knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf21 knowconj
30notnotPARTPolarity=Neg31 rightadvmod
31rightrightADJDegree=Pos29 knowxcomp
32,,PUNCT_33 knowpunct
33knowknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 knowparataxis
34notnotPARTPolarity=Neg35 wrongadvmod
35wrongwrongADJDegree=Pos33 knowccomp
36..PUNCT_16 blindpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wonder speech: ask in a quotegerundvn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2is in a quotepresentmonks and the heretics and the wandering asceticseyes conj; blind propertytree rules
3know in a quoteinfinitivegoodtree rules
4know in a quotepresentvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5know in a quoteinfinitiveright propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6know in a quotepresentvn 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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