The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 248
His example was imitated by his followers, and in the course of time hundreds and hundreds of stories were attributed to him on general principles.
Who acts: followers, Gotama · What happens: imitate, attribute, exemplify · To what, where: example, Gotama, course
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 (followers, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 example | nmod:poss |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 imitated | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 imitated | aux:pass |
| 4 | imitated | imitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 followers | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 followers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 imitated | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 attributed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 attributed | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 course | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 course | det |
| 12 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 attributed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 hundreds | case |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hundreds | compound |
| 15 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 course | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hundreds | cc |
| 17 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hundreds | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 stories | case |
| 19 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hundreds | nmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 attributed | aux:pass |
| 21 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 imitated | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 attributed | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 principles | case |
| 25 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 principles | amod |
| 26 | principles | principle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 attributed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 imitated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imitate | past · passive | Gotama's followers | Gotama's example | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attribute | past · passive | Gotama's followers not said here | Gotama | the course of time hundreds and hundreds of stories | on general principles | tree rules | ||
| 3 | exemplify | Gotama | nom example «cognition 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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