The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 214
Leaving home and wife and son, he devoted himself for six years to fasting, bodily torture, and meditation.
Who acts: Gotama · What happens: leave, devote · To what, where: Gotama, fasting
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 | Leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 devoted | advcl |
| 2 | home | home | ADV | _ | 1 Leaving | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wife | cc |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leaving | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 son | cc |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wife | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leaving | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 devoted | nsubj |
| 9 | devoted | devote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 devoted | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 12 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 devoted | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 fasting | case |
| 15 | fasting | fasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 devoted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 torture | punct |
| 17 | bodily | bodily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 torture | amod |
| 18 | torture | torture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fasting | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 meditation | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 meditation | cc |
| 21 | meditation | meditation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 devoted | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 devoted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | Gotama not said here | wife and son conj; home property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | devote | past | Gotama | Gotama | year | to fasting and bodily torture goal; meditation parataxis | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to fasting=Goal |
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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