The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 178
Gotama Buddha was born nearly twenty-five centuries ago in the city of Kapila, in Northeast India.
What happens: bear · To what, where: Gotama, city
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: 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 | Gotama | Gotama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 born | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gotama | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 born | aux:pass |
| 4 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 8 five | advmod |
| 6 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 five | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 twenty | punct |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 centuries | nummod |
| 9 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 born | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 city | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 city | det |
| 13 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 born | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Kapila | case |
| 15 | Kapila | Kapila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 city | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 India | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 India | case |
| 18 | Northeast | Northeast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 India | compound |
| 19 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 born | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | Gotama | the city of Kapila | in Northeast India; ago property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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