The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 66
At that time the Future Buddha also, seeking wares for himself, having reached that village, was sitting in that carpenter’s hut.
Who acts: Future Buddha, village · What happens: seek, reach, sit · To what, where: wares, Future Buddha, hut
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, village), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Buddha | det |
| 5 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Buddha | compound |
| 6 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 Buddha | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seeking | punct |
| 9 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Buddha | acl |
| 10 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seeking | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 himself | case |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 seeking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reached | punct |
| 14 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 reached | aux |
| 15 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 sitting | mark |
| 17 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sitting | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 village | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sitting | aux |
| 20 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 reached | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 hut | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 carpenter | det |
| 23 | carpenter | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hut | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 carpenter | case |
| 25 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sitting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | gerund | the Future Buddha not said here | wares | for Buddha | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ware=Location for himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | reach | gerund · perfect · passive | the Future Buddha | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | past · progressive | village | that carpenter's hut | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hut=Location |
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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