The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 69
Now a second dicer used to play with the Future Buddha, and he was a cheat.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: use, play, be · To what, where: second dicer, cheat
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 (Buddha), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 dicer | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dicer | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 dicer | amod |
| 4 | dicer | dicer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dicer | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 play | mark |
| 7 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 used | xcomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 Buddha | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Buddha | det |
| 10 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Buddha | compound |
| 11 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 play | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cheat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cheat | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cheat | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cheat | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cheat | det |
| 17 | cheat | cheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dicer | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dicer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | a second dicer and a cheat not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | with the Future Buddha | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with buddha=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Buddha | a cheat | tree rules |
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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