The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 228
In a few hundred years the religion of the Buddha had spread over the whole of Asia.
What happens: spread · To what, where: religion, whole
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 years | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 years | amod |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spread | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 religion | det |
| 7 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Buddha | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Buddha | det |
| 10 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 religion | nmod |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spread | aux |
| 12 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 whole | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 whole | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spread | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Asia | case |
| 17 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 whole | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past · perfect · passive | the religion of the Buddha | the whole of Asia | year | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme over whole=Destination |
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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