The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 252

Of these eleven stories, the first nine are said to have been related by Gotama himself, the last two being attributed to the Buddhist sage Kumāra Kassapa.

Who acts: Gotama · What happens: say, relate, attribute · To what, where: first nine, Gotama, two · Speech: someone speaks here

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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 stories	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 stories	det
3	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 stories	nummod
4	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stories	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 nine	det
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 nine	amod
8	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 said	nsubj:pass
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	aux:pass
10	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	14 related	mark
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 related	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 related	aux:pass
14	related	relate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 Gotama	case
16	Gotama	Gotama	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 related	obl
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 related	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 last	det
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	conj
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 attributed	nsubj:pass
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 attributed	aux:pass
23	attributed	attribute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 last	acl:relcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 sage	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sage	det
26	Buddhist	Buddhist	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sage	compound
27	sage	sage	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 attributed	obl
28	Kumāra	Kumāra	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sage	appos
29	Kassapa	Kassapa	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Kumāra	flat
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · passive		the first nine	of this eleven stories	tree rules
2	relate	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	Gotama	Gotama		vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
3	attribute	gerund · passive		two	to the Buddhist sage	tree rules

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 252

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 252