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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 184

They replied: “He that shall become Buddha is born in the village of the Sakyas for the welfare and happiness of mankind; therefore are we joyful and exceeding glad.”

Who acts: angels, man, we · What happens: reply, become, bear, be, exceed · To what, where: Buddha, village · 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 (angels, man, we), 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

nsubjpunctpunctnsubjmarkauxadvclnsubj:passaux:passxcompcasedetoblcasedetnmodcasedetoblccconjcasenmodpunctadvmodcopnsubjparataxisccconjxcomppunctpunctrootTheyPRONrepliedVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTHePRONthatSCONJshallAUXbecomeVERBBuddhaPROPNisAUXbornVERBinADPtheDETvillageNOUNofADPtheDETSakyasPROPNforADPtheDETwelfareNOUNandCCONJhappinessNOUNofADPmankindNOUN;PUNCTthereforeADVareAUXwePRONjoyfulADJandCCONJexceedingVERBgladADJ.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 repliednsubj
2repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3::PUNCT_8 becomepunct
4“"PUNCT_8 becomepunct
5HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 becomensubj
6thatthatSCONJ_8 becomemark
7shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin8 becomeaux
8becomebecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf2 repliedadvcl
9BuddhaBuddhaPROPNNumber=Sing11 bornnsubj:pass
10isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin11 bornaux:pass
11bornbearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 becomexcomp
12ininADP_14 villagecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 villagedet
14villagevillageNOUNNumber=Sing11 bornobl
15ofofADP_17 Sakyascase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Sakyasdet
17SakyasSakyaPROPNNumber=Plur14 villagenmod
18forforADP_20 welfarecase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 welfaredet
20welfarewelfareNOUNNumber=Sing11 bornobl
21andandCCONJ_22 happinesscc
22happinesshappinessNOUNNumber=Sing20 welfareconj
23ofofADP_24 mankindcase
24mankindmankindNOUNNumber=Sing22 happinessnmod
25;;PUNCT_29 joyfulpunct
26thereforethereforeADV_29 joyfuladvmod
27arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin29 joyfulcop
28wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs29 joyfulnsubj
29joyfuljoyfulADJDegree=Pos2 repliedparataxis
30andandCCONJ_31 exceedingcc
31exceedingexceedVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part29 joyfulconj
32gladgladADJDegree=Pos31 exceedingxcomp
33..PUNCT_29 joyfulpunct
34”"PUNCT_2 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastangels = angelvn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2become in a quoteshallmantree rules
3bear in a quotepresent · passiveBuddhathe village of the Sakyasfor the welfare and happiness of mankindvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus for welfare=Attribute
4is in a quotepresentwejoyful, therefore propertytree rules
5exceed in a quotegerundwe not said hereglad propertyvn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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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