The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 127
At that time the Future Buddha, seeing that army running away, asked: “What’s this?”
Who acts: Future Buddha, army · What happens: see, run away, ask · To what, where: army
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Future Buddha, army), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Buddha | det |
| 5 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Buddha | compound |
| 6 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seeing | punct |
| 8 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Buddha | acl |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 army | det |
| 10 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seeing | obj |
| 11 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 army | acl |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 running | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Buddha | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 ’s | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 ’s | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 ’s | nsubj |
| 18 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 ’s | obj |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 ’s | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the Future Buddha not said here | that army | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer army=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | run away | gerund | that army not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Future Buddha | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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