The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 247
Gotama Buddha made frequent use of similes, allegories, parables, fables, and other stories, to illustrate his teachings.
Who acts: Gotama · What happens: make, illustrate, use, teach · To what, where: frequent use, teachings, similes
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), 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 | Gotama | Gotama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gotama | flat |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 use | amod |
| 5 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 similes | case |
| 7 | similes | simile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 use | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 allegories | punct |
| 9 | allegories | allegory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 similes | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 parables | punct |
| 11 | parables | parable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 similes | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fables | punct |
| 13 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 similes | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stories | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stories | cc |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 stories | amod |
| 17 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 illustrate | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 illustrate | mark |
| 20 | illustrate | illustrate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 teachings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | teachings | teaching | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 illustrate | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Gotama | frequent use of similes and allegories and parables and fables | other stories conj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product | |||
| 2 | illustrate | to-infinitive | Gotama's teachings | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teaching=Destination | |||||
| 3 | use | similes and allegories and parables and fables | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | teach | Gotama | 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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