The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 92
Then the Future Buddha told him the reason by uttering the second stanza:
Who acts: Future Buddha, reason · What happens: tell, utter · To what, where: reason, place, second stanza · Speech: someone speaks here
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, reason), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Buddha | det |
| 3 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Buddha | compound |
| 4 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reason | det |
| 8 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | obj |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 uttering | mark |
| 10 | uttering | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 reason | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stanza | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 stanza | amod |
| 13 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 uttering | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the Future Buddha | the reason | place | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient reason=Topic | ||
| 2 | utter speech: other | gerund | the reason not said here | the second stanza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic |
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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