The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 27
By supernatural power, in the region of Himavat, at a bend in the Ganges, he created a hermitage, and there he resided, surrounded by a company of ascetics, diverting himself with the diversions of the Trances.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: create, reside, surround, divert · To what, where: hermitage, Buddha, Trances
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 power | case |
| 2 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 power | amod |
| 3 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 created | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 region | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 region | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 region | det |
| 7 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 power | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Himavat | case |
| 9 | Himavat | Himavat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 region | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bend | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 bend | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bend | det |
| 13 | bend | bend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 power | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Ganges | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Ganges | det |
| 16 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 bend | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 power | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 created | nsubj |
| 19 | created | create | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hermitage | det |
| 21 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 created | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 resided | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 resided | cc |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 resided | expl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 resided | nsubj |
| 26 | resided | reside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 created | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 surrounded | punct |
| 28 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 resided | acl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 company | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 company | det |
| 31 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 ascetics | case |
| 33 | ascetics | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 company | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 diverting | punct |
| 35 | diverting | divert | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 resided | advcl |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 diverting | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 diversions | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 diversions | det |
| 39 | diversions | diversion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 diverting | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Trances | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Trances | det |
| 42 | Trances | trance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 diversions | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 created | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | create | past | Buddha | a hermitage | by supernatural power and a bend in the Ganges | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermitage=Result | |||
| 2 | reside | past | Buddha | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | a company of ascetics obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | divert | gerund | Buddha not said here | Buddha | with the diversions of the Trances | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | divert | the Trances | nom diversion «act 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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