The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 104
With this stanza did the Future Buddha preach the Doctrine, praising the man of wisdom.
Who acts: Future Buddha · What happens: do, preach, praise · To what, where: Doctrine, man
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 stanza | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 stanza | det |
| 3 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Buddha | det |
| 6 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Buddha | compound |
| 7 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 preach | nsubj |
| 8 | preach | preach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Doctrine | det |
| 10 | Doctrine | Doctrine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 preach | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 praising | punct |
| 12 | praising | praise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 preach | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 praising | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wisdom | case |
| 16 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 man | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | with this stanza | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | preach speech: other | present | the Future Buddha | the Doctrine | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctrine=Topic | ||||
| 3 | praise | gerund | the Future Buddha not said here | the man of wisdom | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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