The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 83
“Precisely so, monks, here in this world, many a monk is ever so gentle, ever so meek, ever so tranquil, so long as unpleasant remarks do not reach him.
Who acts: unpleasant remarks · What happens: not reach · To what, where: Monk
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 (unpleasant remarks), 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 | _ | 3 so | punct |
| 2 | Precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 3 so | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 many | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 monks | punct |
| 5 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 many | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 monks | punct |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 monks | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 monks | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 monks | punct |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 monk | amod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 monk | det |
| 14 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gentle | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 gentle | aux |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 18 gentle | advmod |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 gentle | advmod |
| 18 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 meek | punct |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 meek | advmod |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 meek | advmod |
| 22 | meek | meek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gentle | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tranquil | punct |
| 24 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 tranquil | advmod |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 tranquil | advmod |
| 26 | tranquil | tranquil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 meek | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 long | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 long | advmod |
| 29 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 gentle | conj |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 reach | mark |
| 31 | unpleasant | unpleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 remarks | amod |
| 32 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 reach | nsubj |
| 33 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 reach | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 reach | advmod |
| 35 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 long | advcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 reach | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 gentle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reach in a quote | present · do-support | unpleasant remarks | Monk | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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