The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 23

For even ascetics of old, before a Buddha had arisen, cultivated friendship for the four royal families of snakes, and thus obtained deliverance from the perils that arose through those royal families of snakes.”

Who acts: Buddha, perils · What happens: arise, cultivate, obtain, arose · To what, where: cultivated friendship, deliverance, perils, royal families

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buddha, perils), 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	_	3 ascetics	case
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 ascetics	advmod
3	ascetics	ascetic	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 old	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 old	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 arisen	punct
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 arisen	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Buddha	det
9	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 arisen	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 arisen	aux
11	arisen	arise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 old	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 cultivated	punct
13	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 friendship	amod
14	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arisen	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 families	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 families	det
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 families	nummod
18	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 families	amod
19	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 arisen	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 snakes	case
21	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 families	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 obtained	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 obtained	cc
24	thus	thus	ADV	_	25 obtained	advmod
25	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 old	conj
26	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 obtained	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 perils	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 perils	det
29	perils	peril	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 obtained	obl
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 arose	nsubj
31	arose	arose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 perils	acl:relcl
32	through	through	ADP	_	35 families	case
33	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 families	det
34	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 families	amod
35	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 arose	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 snakes	case
37	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 families	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arise	past · perfect	a Buddha	cultivated friendship		for the four royal families of snakes	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location friendship=Theme
2	cultivate	participle					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	obtain	past		deliverance	the perils	thus property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent deliverance=Theme from peril=Source
4	arose	present	the perils		that royal families of snakes		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 12, sentence 23

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 23