The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 149
And they gazed at the countenance of the Teacher, resplendent with the glory of the full moon; at his form, a form like that of Great Brahmā, adorned with the greater and lesser marks of beauty, encircled with a radiance a fathom deep; at the solid rays of a Buddha which issued from his body, forming, as it were, garland after garland and pair after pair.
Who acts: offerings, Buddha, body, full moon, Teacher · What happens: gaze, adorn, encircle, issue, form, be · To what, where: greater marks, body, Great, beauty, Buddha
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (offerings, Buddha, body, full moon), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gazed | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gazed | nsubj |
| 3 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 countenance | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 countenance | det |
| 6 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gazed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Teacher | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Teacher | det |
| 9 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 countenance | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 resplendent | punct |
| 11 | resplendent | resplendent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 countenance | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 glory | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 glory | det |
| 14 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 resplendent | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 moon | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 moon | det |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 moon | amod |
| 18 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 glory | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 form | punct |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 form | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 form | nmod:poss |
| 22 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gazed | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 form | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 form | det |
| 25 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 form | appos |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 that | case |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 form | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Great | case |
| 29 | Great | Great | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 form | nmod |
| 30 | Brahmā | Brahmā | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Great | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 adorned | punct |
| 32 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 form | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 marks | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 marks | det |
| 35 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 marks | amod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 lesser | cc |
| 37 | lesser | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 35 greater | conj |
| 38 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 adorned | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 beauty | case |
| 40 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 marks | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 encircled | punct |
| 42 | encircled | encircle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 marks | acl |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 radiance | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 radiance | det |
| 45 | radiance | radiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 encircled | obl |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 fathom | det |
| 47 | fathom | fathom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 deep | obl:unmarked |
| 48 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 radiance | amod |
| 49 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 rays | punct |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 53 rays | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 rays | det |
| 52 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 rays | amod |
| 53 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gazed | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 Buddha | case |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 Buddha | det |
| 56 | Buddha | buddha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 rays | nmod |
| 57 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 58 issued | nsubj |
| 58 | issued | issue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 Buddha | acl:relcl |
| 59 | from | from | ADP | _ | 61 body | case |
| 60 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 61 body | nmod:poss |
| 61 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 issued | obl |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 forming | punct |
| 63 | forming | form | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gazed | advcl |
| 64 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 garland | punct |
| 65 | as | as | ADP | _ | 69 garland | case |
| 66 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 69 garland | nsubj |
| 67 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 69 garland | cop |
| 68 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 69 garland | punct |
| 69 | garland | garland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 forming | obl |
| 70 | after | after | ADP | _ | 71 garland | case |
| 71 | garland | garland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 garland | nmod |
| 72 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 73 pair | cc |
| 73 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 garland | conj |
| 74 | after | after | ADP | _ | 75 pair | case |
| 75 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 73 pair | nmod |
| 76 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | offerings = offering | at the solid rays of a Buddha; at the countenance of the Teacher; Teacher's form parataxis | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at countenance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | adorn | participle | offerings = offering not said here | with the greater marks of beauty | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with mark=Theme | ||||
| 3 | encircle | participle | the greater marks of beauty not said here | with a radiance | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with radiance=Theme | ||||
| 4 | issue | past | a Buddha | Teacher's body | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | form | gerund | offerings = offering not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past | body | after garland | as garland and pair after pair; pair after pair conj | tree rules | |||
| 7 | glory | the full moon | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | form | Teacher | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | form | Great | like that | nom form «communication transitive»: like=obl of=patient | |||||
| 10 | mark | beauty | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 11 | ray | a Buddha | nom ray «phenomenon 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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