The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 213

The thought that in the course of his past lives he had endured old age, sickness, and death, times without number, terrified him, and he resolved to become a monk.

Who acts: Gotama · What happens: live, endure, resolve, become · To what, where: thought, course, old age, monk

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 (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	2 thought	det
2	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lives	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 course	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 course	det
6	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lives	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 past	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 past	nmod:poss
9	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 course	nmod
10	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	acl:relcl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 endured	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 endured	aux
13	endured	endure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 lives	ccomp
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 age	amod
15	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 endured	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sickness	punct
17	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 age	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 death	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 death	cc
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 times	punct
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	appos
23	without	without	ADP	_	24 number	case
24	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 times	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 terrified	punct
26	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 terrified	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 resolved	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 resolved	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 resolved	nsubj
31	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 terrified	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 become	mark
33	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 resolved	xcomp
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 monk	det
35	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 become	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	present		the thought and death	the course of Gotama's past	tree rules
2	endure	past · perfect	Gotama	old age and sickness		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme age=Circumstance
3	resolve	past	Gotama			tree rules
4	become	to-infinitive	Gotama not said here	a monk		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 213

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 213