The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 64
As for the Future Buddha, through the cultivation of the Exalted States, he attained the goal of the World of Brahmā.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: exalt, attain, cultivate · To what, where: goal, Exalted States
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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 Buddha | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Buddha | det |
| 4 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Buddha | compound |
| 5 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 attained | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cultivation | punct |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 cultivation | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cultivation | det |
| 9 | cultivation | cultivation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Buddha | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 States | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 States | det |
| 12 | Exalted | exalt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 States | amod |
| 13 | States | State | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 cultivation | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Buddha | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 attained | nsubj |
| 16 | attained | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 goal | det |
| 18 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 attained | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 World | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 World | det |
| 21 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 goal | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Brahmā | case |
| 23 | Brahmā | Brahmā | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 World | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 attained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exalt | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | attain | past | Buddha | the goal of the World of Brahmā | as the Future Buddha | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=Theme | |||
| 3 | cultivate | the Exalted States | nom cultivation «act 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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