The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 151
The heretics, after listening to the discourse of the Teacher, believed in their hearts, and rising from their seats, burst asunder the refuge of the heretical teachers and sought refuge in the Buddha.
Who acts: heretics · What happens: listen, believe, rise, burst, seek, discourse · To what, where: discourse, hearts, seats, asunder, refuge, 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 (heretics), 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 | 2 heretics | det |
| 2 | heretics | heretic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 burst | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 listening | punct |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 listening | mark |
| 5 | listening | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 heretics | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 discourse | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 discourse | det |
| 8 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listening | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Teacher | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Teacher | det |
| 11 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 discourse | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 believed | punct |
| 13 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 discourse | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hearts | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 believed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rising | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rising | cc |
| 19 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 listening | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 seats | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 seats | nmod:poss |
| 22 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 rising | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 heretics | punct |
| 24 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 burst | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 refuge | det |
| 27 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 burst | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 teachers | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 teachers | det |
| 30 | heretical | heretical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 teachers | amod |
| 31 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 refuge | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 sought | cc |
| 33 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 burst | conj |
| 34 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sought | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 Buddha | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Buddha | det |
| 37 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 sought | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | gerund | the heretics not said here | to the discourse of the Teacher | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to discourse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | believe | participle | the discourse of the Teacher not said here | heretics's hearts | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | the heretics not said here | heretics's seats | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from seat=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | burst | past | the heretics | asunder | the refuge of the heretical teachers obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | seek | past | the heretics not said here | refuge | the Buddha | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme in buddha=Location | |||
| 6 | discourse | the Teacher | nom discourse «communication 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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