The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 8
Said the Teacher: “Monk, not only in your present state of existence are you disobedient, but in a previous state of existence also you were disobedient.
Who acts: Teacher, Monk, you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: previous state · 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 (Teacher, Monk, 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Teacher | det |
| 3 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 Monk | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Monk | punct |
| 6 | Monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 disobedient | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 state | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 state | advmod |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 state | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 state | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 state | nmod:poss |
| 12 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 state | amod |
| 13 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Monk | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 existence | case |
| 15 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 state | nmod |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 disobedient | cop |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 disobedient | nsubj |
| 18 | disobedient | disobedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 disobedient | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 disobedient | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 state | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 state | det |
| 23 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 state | amod |
| 24 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 disobedient | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 existence | case |
| 26 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 state | nmod |
| 27 | also | also | ADV | _ | 30 disobedient | advmod |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 disobedient | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 disobedient | cop |
| 30 | disobedient | disobedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 disobedient | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Monk | you nsubj; disobedient property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | you | a previous state of existence | disobedient property | 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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