The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 85
Now at that time the Future Buddha was his counsellor in temporal and spiritual matters.
Who acts: Future Buddha · What happens: be · To what, where: counsellor, temporal
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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 counsellor | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 counsellor | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Buddha | det |
| 6 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Buddha | compound |
| 7 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 counsellor | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 counsellor | cop |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 counsellor | nmod:poss |
| 10 | counsellor | counsellor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 temporal | case |
| 12 | temporal | temporal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 counsellor | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 matters | cc |
| 14 | spiritual | spiritual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 matters | amod |
| 15 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 counsellor | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 counsellor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Future Buddha | king's counsellor and spiritual matters | temporal | now; time | king nmod:poss; spiritual matters conj | 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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