The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 62
From that time on the company of ascetics, abiding steadfast in the admonition of the Future Buddha, cultivated friendliness, meditated on the virtues of the Buddhas.
Who acts: time · What happens: abide, cultivate, meditate, admonish · To what, where: admonition, cultivated friendliness, Future Buddha
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 (time), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 company | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 company | det |
| 6 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ascetics | case |
| 8 | ascetics | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 company | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 abiding | punct |
| 10 | abiding | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 time | acl |
| 11 | steadfast | steadfast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 abiding | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 admonition | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 admonition | det |
| 14 | admonition | admonition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 abiding | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Buddha | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Buddha | det |
| 17 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Buddha | compound |
| 18 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 admonition | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 friendliness | punct |
| 20 | cultivated | cultivate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 friendliness | amod |
| 21 | friendliness | friendliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 admonition | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 meditated | punct |
| 23 | meditated | meditate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 friendliness | acl |
| 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 meditated | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Buddhas | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Buddhas | det |
| 29 | Buddhas | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 virtues | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abide | gerund | that time on the company of ascetics not said here | the admonition of the Future Buddha and cultivated friendliness | steadfast property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cultivate | participle | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | meditate | participle | cultivated friendliness not said here | on the virtues of the Buddhas | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on virtue=Topic | ||||
| 5 | admonish | the Future Buddha | nom admonition «communication 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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