The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 30
The Future Buddha caused all of the ascetics to be assembled, and said to them: “If you would cultivate friendship for the four royal families of snakes, the snakes would not bite you.
Who acts: Future Buddha, ascetics, snakes · What happens: cause, assemble, say, cultivate, not bite · To what, where: all, ascetics, friendship · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Future Buddha, ascetics, snakes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Buddha | det |
| 2 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Buddha | compound |
| 3 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 caused | nsubj |
| 4 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 caused | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ascetics | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ascetics | det |
| 8 | ascetics | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 all | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 assembled | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 assembled | aux:pass |
| 11 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 caused | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 caused | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 cultivate | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 cultivate | punct |
| 19 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 cultivate | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 cultivate | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 cultivate | aux |
| 22 | cultivate | cultivate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 23 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cultivate | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 families | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 families | det |
| 26 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 families | nummod |
| 27 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 families | amod |
| 28 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cultivate | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 snakes | case |
| 30 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 families | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 bite | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 snakes | det |
| 33 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 bite | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 bite | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 bite | advmod |
| 36 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 cultivate | advcl |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 bite | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | the Future Buddha | all of the ascetics | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition all=Patient | ||||
| 2 | assemble | to-infinitive · passive | the Future Buddha not said here | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | ascetics = ascetic | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | cultivate a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | would | ascetics = ascetic | friendship | for the four royal families of snakes | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent friendship=Product for family=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | not bite in a quote | would | the snakes | ascetics = ascetic | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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