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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 26

When he reached manhood, he renounced the pleasures of sense, retired from the world and adopted the life of an ascetic, and developed the Supernatural Powers and the Attainments.

Who acts: Buddha · What happens: reach, renounce, retire, adopt, develop, please · To what, where: manhood, pleasures, world, life, Supernatural Powers, sense

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), 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

marknsubjadvclobjpunctnsubjdetobjcasenmodpunctaclcasedetoblccconjdetobjcasedetnmodpunctccconjdetcompoundobjccdetconjpunctrootWhenSCONJhePRONreachedVERBmanhoodNOUN,PUNCThePRONrenouncedVERBtheDETpleasuresNOUNofADPsenseNOUN,PUNCTretiredVERBfromADPtheDETworldNOUNandCCONJadoptedVERBtheDETlifeNOUNofADPanDETasceticNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJdevelopedVERBtheDETSupernaturalPROPNPowersPROPNandCCONJtheDETAttainmentsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenSCONJ_3 reachedmark
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 reachednsubj
3reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 renouncedadvcl
4manhoodmanhoodNOUNNumber=Sing3 reachedobj
5,,PUNCT_3 reachedpunct
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 renouncednsubj
7renouncedrenounceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 pleasuresdet
9pleasurespleasureNOUNNumber=Plur7 renouncedobj
10ofofADP_11 sensecase
11sensesenseNOUNNumber=Sing9 pleasuresnmod
12,,PUNCT_13 retiredpunct
13retiredretireVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass9 pleasuresacl
14fromfromADP_16 worldcase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 worlddet
16worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing13 retiredobl
17andandCCONJ_18 adoptedcc
18adoptedadoptVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 retiredconj
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 lifedet
20lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing18 adoptedobj
21ofofADP_23 asceticcase
22anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 asceticdet
23asceticasceticNOUNNumber=Sing20 lifenmod
24,,PUNCT_26 developedpunct
25andandCCONJ_26 developedcc
26developeddevelopVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 renouncedconj
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 Powersdet
28SupernaturalSupernaturalPROPNNumber=Sing29 Powerscompound
29PowersPowerPROPNNumber=Plur26 developedobj
30andandCCONJ_32 Attainmentscc
31thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 Attainmentsdet
32AttainmentsattainmentNOUNNumber=Plur29 Powersconj
33..PUNCT_7 renouncedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reachpastBuddhamanhoodvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent manhood=Theme
2renouncepastBuddhathe pleasures of sensevn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Source
3retireparticiplethe pleasures of sense not said herethe worldvn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from world=Source
4adoptpastthe life of a asceticvn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
5developpastBuddha not said herethe Supernatural Powers and the Attainmentsvn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Product
6pleasesensenom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=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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