The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 182
The Buddhist Scriptures tell us that when Gotama was born, the angels rejoiced and sang.
Who acts: Buddhist Scriptures, angels · What happens: tell, bear, rejoice, sing · To what, where: us, Gotama · 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 (Buddhist Scriptures, angels), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Scriptures | det |
| 2 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Scriptures | amod |
| 3 | Scriptures | Scripture | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 born | mark |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 born | advmod |
| 8 | Gotama | Gotama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 born | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 born | aux:pass |
| 10 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tell | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rejoiced | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 angels | det |
| 13 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 14 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 born | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sang | cc |
| 16 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 rejoiced | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | the Buddhist Scriptures | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · passive | Gotama | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | rejoice | past | the angels | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | the angels not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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