The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 215

Finally he became convinced that fasting and bodily torture were not the way of salvation, and abandoned the struggle.

Who acts: Gotama, fasting · What happens: become, fast, not be, abandon · To what, where: way, struggle

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, fasting), 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	Finally	finally	ADV	_	3 became	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 became	nsubj
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	convinced	convinced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	xcomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 way	mark
6	fasting	fast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 way	csubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 torture	cc
8	bodily	bodily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 torture	amod
9	torture	torture	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fasting	conj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 way	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 way	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 convinced	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 salvation	case
15	salvation	salvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 way	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 abandoned	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 abandoned	cc
18	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 struggle	det
20	struggle	struggle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 abandoned	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	Gotama		convinced, finally property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	fast	gerund			bodily torture conj	tree rules
3	not is a	past	fasting	the way	of salvation	tree rules
4	abandon	past	Gotama not said here	the struggle		vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme struggle=Source

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 215

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 215