The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 99
The Future Buddha, hearing of that incident, thought: “For even an enemy in this world, if only he be a wise man, is better!”
Who acts: Future Buddha, Buddha, incident · What happens: think, be, hear · To what, where: wise man · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Buddha, incident), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Buddha | det |
| 2 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Buddha | compound |
| 3 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hearing | punct |
| 5 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Buddha | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 incident | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 incident | det |
| 8 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hearing | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Buddha | punct |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 enemy | punct |
| 13 | For | for | ADP | _ | 16 enemy | case |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 enemy | advmod |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 enemy | det |
| 16 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 enemy | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 man | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 man | mark |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 27 man | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 man | nsubj |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 man | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 26 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 enemy | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 better | punct |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 better | cop |
| 30 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 enemy | conj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 enemy | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 enemy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Future Buddha | a enemy in this world and a wise man ccomp | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | Buddha | a wise man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the Future Buddha not said here | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hear | that incident | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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