The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 3
For if, at that time, the Future Buddha had not come to the rescue, they would all have run down into the sea and perished.
Who acts: Future Buddha, animals · What happens: not come, run down, perish · To what, where: rescue, sea
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. 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, animals), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 time | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Buddha | det |
| 9 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Buddha | compound |
| 10 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 come | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 come | advmod |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 rescue | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rescue | det |
| 16 | rescue | rescue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 run | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 run | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 run | aux |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 run | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 run | aux |
| 22 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 come | advcl |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 run | compound:prt |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 run | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 perished | cc |
| 28 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 run | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | past | the Future Buddha | the rescue | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rescue=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | run down | would · perfect | animals = animal | into the sea result; all property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sea=Result | ||||
| 3 | perish | participle | animals = animal not said here | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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