The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 237
All war, according to the teaching of the Buddha, is unholy.
Who acts: war · What happens: accord, be, teach · To what, where: 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 (war), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 war | det |
| 2 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 unholy | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 teaching | punct |
| 4 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 teaching | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 according | fixed |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 teaching | det |
| 7 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 war | conj |
| 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 teaching | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 war | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 unholy | cop |
| 13 | unholy | unholy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 unholy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | all war and the teaching of the Buddha | unholy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | 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.
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