The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 63
Even as they thus meditated on the virtues of the Buddhas, all of the reptiles disappeared.
Who acts: ascetics, all · What happens: meditate, disappear · To what, where: Buddhas
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 (ascetics, all), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 5 meditated | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 meditated | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 meditated | nsubj |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 meditated | advmod |
| 5 | meditated | meditate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 virtues | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 virtues | det |
| 8 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 meditated | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Buddhas | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Buddhas | det |
| 11 | Buddhas | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 virtues | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 disappeared | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 disappeared | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 reptiles | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 reptiles | det |
| 16 | reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 all | nmod |
| 17 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Buddhas | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 meditated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meditate | participle | ascetics = ascetic | on the virtues of the Buddhas; thus property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on virtue=Topic | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past | all of the reptiles | the Buddhas not said here | tree rules |
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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