The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 84
But when, monks, unpleasant remarks reach a monk, that is the time to find out whether he is really gentle, really meek, really tranquil.”
Who acts: monks, that, Monk · What happens: reach, be, find out · To what, where: monk, time · 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, that, Monk), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 tranquil | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 reach | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 monks | punct |
| 4 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reach | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 remarks | punct |
| 6 | unpleasant | unpleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 remarks | amod |
| 7 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 monks | conj |
| 8 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 tranquil | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 monk | det |
| 10 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reach | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reach | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | acl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 find | compound:prt |
| 19 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 23 gentle | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gentle | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 gentle | cop |
| 22 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 gentle | advmod |
| 23 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 find | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 meek | punct |
| 25 | really | really | ADV | _ | 26 meek | advmod |
| 26 | meek | meek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gentle | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reach | punct |
| 28 | really | really | ADV | _ | 29 tranquil | advmod |
| 29 | tranquil | tranquil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 tranquil | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 tranquil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | monks and unpleasant remarks | a monk | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent monk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | that | the time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find out | to-infinitive | monks and unpleasant remarks not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | Monk | gentle property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | Monk not said here | 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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