The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 46
Now to Servant Blackie occurred the following thought: “Of my lady mistress prevails the following excellent reputation: ‘Gentle is Mistress Vedehikā, meek is Mistress Vedehikā, tranquil is Mistress Vedehikā.’
Who acts: Blackie · What happens: servant, occur, follow, prevail, be · To what, where: following thought, excellent reputation, Gentle Mistress, Mistress Mistress, tranquil Mistress · 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 (Blackie), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 Servant | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 Servant | mark |
| 3 | Servant | servant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Blackie | Blackie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 occurred | nsubj |
| 5 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Servant | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thought | det |
| 7 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 thought | amod |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 occurred | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 prevails | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 prevails | punct |
| 11 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mistress | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mistress | compound |
| 14 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prevails | obl |
| 15 | prevails | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Servant | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 reputation | det |
| 17 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 reputation | case |
| 18 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 reputation | amod |
| 19 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prevails | obj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 Mistress | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 Mistress | punct |
| 22 | Gentle | Gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Mistress | amod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 Mistress | cop |
| 24 | Mistress | Mistress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Mistress | compound |
| 25 | Vedehikā | Vedehikā | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Mistress | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 meek | punct |
| 27 | meek | meek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Mistress | conj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 Mistress | cop |
| 29 | Mistress | Mistress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Servant | parataxis |
| 30 | Vedehikā | Vedehikā | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Mistress | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Mistress | punct |
| 32 | tranquil | tranquil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Mistress | compound |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 Mistress | cop |
| 34 | Mistress | Mistress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Mistress | conj |
| 35 | Vedehikā | Vedehikā | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Mistress | flat |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 Mistress | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Servant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | servant | to-infinitive | now | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | occur | past | Blackie | the following thought | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | prevail in a quote | present | the excellent reputation | of my lady mistress | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | follow in a quote | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | Gentle Mistress | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | be in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 8 | is a in a quote | present | Mistress Mistress and tranquil Mistress | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | is a in a quote | present | tranquil Mistress | 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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