The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 55
Having so said, in order to point out what more must yet be done, he recited this stanza:
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: have, say, point out, do, recite · To what, where: stanza · 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 (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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 recited | advcl |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | acl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 point | punct |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 8 point | mark |
| 6 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 in | fixed |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 point | mark |
| 8 | point | point | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Having | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 point | compound:prt |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 done | obj |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 what | amod |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 done | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 done | aux:pass |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 point | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 recited | nsubj |
| 18 | recited | recite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 stanza | det |
| 20 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 recited | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 recited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Buddha not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | point out | to-infinitive | Buddha not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | must · passive | Buddha not said here | yet | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | recite | past | Buddha | this stanza | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stanza=Theme |
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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