The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 38
Hearing their reply, the Future Buddha uttered the third stanza:
Who acts: Future Buddha, trees · What happens: hear, utter, reply · To what, where: reply, third stanza
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 (Future Buddha, trees), 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 | Hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 uttered | advcl |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 reply | nmod:poss |
| 3 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hearing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hearing | punct |
| 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 uttered | nsubj |
| 8 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stanza | det |
| 10 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 stanza | amod |
| 11 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 uttered | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the Future Buddha not said here | trees's reply | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer reply=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | the Future Buddha | the third stanza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic | ||||
| 3 | reply | trees = tree | nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=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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