The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 50
When the Future Buddha had thus pointed out that the virtues of the Three Jewels are infinite, he said: “Meditate on the virtues of these Three Jewels.”
Who acts: virtues, Buddha · What happens: point out, be, say, meditate · To what, where: Future Buddha · 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 (virtues, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 pointed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Buddha | det |
| 3 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Buddha | compound |
| 4 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pointed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pointed | aux |
| 6 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 pointed | advmod |
| 7 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 said | ccomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 pointed | compound:prt |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 infinite | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 virtues | det |
| 11 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 infinite | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Jewels | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Jewels | det |
| 14 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 Jewels | nummod |
| 15 | Jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 virtues | nmod |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 infinite | cop |
| 17 | infinite | infinite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pointed | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pointed | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 Meditate | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Meditate | punct |
| 23 | Meditate | meditate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 virtues | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 virtues | det |
| 26 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Meditate | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Jewels | case |
| 28 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 30 Jewels | det |
| 29 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 Jewels | nummod |
| 30 | Jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 virtues | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 Meditate | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Meditate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point out | past · perfect · passive | the Future Buddha | thus property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the virtues of the Three Jewels | infinite property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Buddha | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | meditate in a quote | infinitive | on the virtues of this Three Jewels | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on virtue=Topic |
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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