--- title: Those who have not attained consciousness of their portion, Those wh… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: Those who have not attained consciousness of their portion, Those who follow the voice of others, Those who are given to heedlessness,--the foolish,-- They attain what others attain. Who acts: animals, others. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/) / 7 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 7 Those who have not attained consciousness of their portion, Those who follow the voice of others, Those who are given to heedlessness,--the foolish,-- They attain what others attain. **Who acts:** animals, others · **What happens:** not attain, follow, give, attain · **To what, where:** attained consciousness, voice, heedlessness This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (animals, others), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:11:7 # text = Those who have not attained consciousness of their portion, Those who follow the voice of others, Those who are given to heedlessness,--the foolish,-- They attain what others attain. 1 Those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 2 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 attained attain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 consciousness consciousness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 portion portion NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 11 Those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 19 nsubj _ _ 12 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 13 nsubj _ _ 13 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 6 nmod _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 21 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 heedlessness heedlessness NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 -- -- PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 foolish foolish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 -- -- PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 attain attain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 33 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 35 obj _ _ 34 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 attain attain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **attain** | present · perfect · passive | | that attained consciousness of animals's portion Those Those | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **follow** | present | | the voice of others | | | | who *nsubj* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | | 3 | **give** | present · passive | | | heedlessness | | | who *nsubj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to heedlessness=Recipient | | 4 | **attain** | present | animals *= animal* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **attain** | present | others | | | | | what *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/8/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/11/)