The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 61
Thus the Future Buddha composed this protective charm for the company of ascetics and gave it to them.
Who acts: Future Buddha · What happens: compose, give · To what, where: protective charm, charm, ascetics
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), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 composed | 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 | 5 composed | nsubj |
| 5 | composed | compose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 charm | det |
| 7 | protective | protective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 charm | amod |
| 8 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 composed | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 company | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 company | det |
| 11 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 composed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ascetics | case |
| 13 | ascetics | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 company | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 composed | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 composed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compose | past | the Future Buddha | this protective charm | for the company of ascetics; thus property | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent charm=Result for company=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | give | past | the Future Buddha not said here | charm | ascetics = ascetic | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to they=Recipient |
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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