The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 227
Missionaries carried his teachings from India to Ceylon and Burma and China and Tibet and Japan.
Who acts: Missionaries, Buddha · What happens: carry, teach · To what, where: teachings, Ceylon, India
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 (Missionaries, Buddha), 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 | Missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 teachings | nmod:poss |
| 4 | teachings | teaching | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carried | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 India | case |
| 6 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Ceylon | case |
| 8 | Ceylon | Ceylon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Burma | cc |
| 10 | Burma | Burma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ceylon | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 China | cc |
| 12 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ceylon | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Tibet | cc |
| 14 | Tibet | Tibet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ceylon | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Japan | cc |
| 16 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ceylon | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | Missionaries | Buddha's teachings | Ceylon and Burma and China and Tibet and Japan | India | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent teaching=Theme from india=Initial_Location to ceylon=Destination | ||
| 2 | teach | Buddha | nom teaching «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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