The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 177
These stories are said to have been related by Gotama Buddha for the purpose of conveying to his hearers moral and religious lessons and the lessons of common sense.
Who acts: Gotama Buddha, purpose · What happens: say, relate, convey · To what, where: stories, hearers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gotama Buddha, purpose), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux:pass |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 related | mark |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 related | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 related | aux:pass |
| 8 | related | relate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Buddha | case |
| 10 | Gotama | Gotama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Buddha | compound |
| 11 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 related | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 purpose | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 purpose | det |
| 14 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 related | obl |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 conveying | mark |
| 16 | conveying | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 purpose | acl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 hearers | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hearers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hearers | hearer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 conveying | obl |
| 20 | moral | moral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 lessons | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 religious | cc |
| 22 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 moral | conj |
| 23 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hearers | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 lessons | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lessons | det |
| 26 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hearers | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 sense | case |
| 28 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sense | amod |
| 29 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lessons | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | this stories | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | relate | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | Gotama Buddha | for the purpose | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | convey | gerund | the purpose not said here | Buddha's hearers and moral lessons and the lessons of common sense | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to hearer=Recipient |
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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