The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 212

The Buddhist Scriptures tell us that when Gotama was twenty-nine years old, he saw for the first time an Old Man, a Sick Man, a Dead Man, and a Monk.

Who acts: Buddhist Scriptures, Gotama · What happens: tell, be, see · To what, where: us, Monk · 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, Gotama), 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	_	17 saw	mark
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 old	mark
8	Gotama	Gotama	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 old	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 old	cop
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 nine	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 twenty	punct
12	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 old	obl:unmarked
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 saw	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 old	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	ccomp
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obl
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Man	det
23	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Man	amod
24	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 time	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Man	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 Man	det
27	Sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Man	amod
28	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Man	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Man	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 Man	det
31	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Man	amod
32	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Man	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 Monk	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Monk	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 Monk	det
36	Monk	Monk	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	the Buddhist Scriptures		us			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is	past	Gotama			year	old property	tree rules
3	see	past	Gotama	a Monk		time		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 212

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 212