The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 192
“No,” replied the wise man, “this child shall one day become Buddha; out of love and pity for mankind he shall set in motion the Wheel of Religion; far and wide shall his religion be spread.
Who acts: wise man, child · What happens: reply, become, set, spread · To what, where: mankind, motion, love · 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 (wise man, child), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 become | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 become | punct |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 become | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 become | aux |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 day | nummod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 become | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | advcl |
| 17 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 become | xcomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 love | punct |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 love | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 love | case |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 spread | nsubj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pity | cc |
| 23 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 love | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 mankind | case |
| 25 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 love | nmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 set | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 set | aux |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 mankind | acl:relcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 motion | case |
| 30 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 set | obl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Wheel | det |
| 32 | Wheel | Wheel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 motion | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Religion | case |
| 34 | Religion | Religion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Wheel | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 far | punct |
| 36 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 spread | advmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 wide | cc |
| 38 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 far | conj |
| 39 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 spread | aux |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 religion | nmod:poss |
| 41 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 spread | aux:pass |
| 43 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the wise man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | become in a quote | shall | this child | day | Buddha xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | set in a quote | shall | child | mankind not said here | motion | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mankind=Theme in motion=Destination | |||
| 4 | spread in a quote | shall · passive | love for mankind and pity | child's religion nsubj:pass; far property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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