The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 230
In at least two respects, the teachings of the Buddha were quite remarkable.
Who acts: teachings · What happens: be, teach · To what, where: two respects, Buddha
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 (teachings), 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 respects | case |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 least | case |
| 3 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 two | nmod |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 respects | nummod |
| 5 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 remarkable | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 respects | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 teachings | det |
| 8 | teachings | teaching | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 remarkable | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Buddha | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Buddha | det |
| 11 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 teachings | nmod |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 remarkable | cop |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 remarkable | advmod |
| 14 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 remarkable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the teachings of the Buddha | two respects | remarkable property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | teach | the Buddha | nom teaching «act transitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/1/230/