The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 77
Now the Future Buddha, seeing him do this, said: “Just swallow!
Who acts: Future Buddha, Buddha · What happens: see, do, say, swallow · To what, where: Buddha, this · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 Buddha | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Buddha | det |
| 3 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Buddha | compound |
| 4 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Buddha | punct |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Buddha | acl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seeing | obj |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seeing | xcomp |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Buddha | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 swallow | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 swallow | punct |
| 14 | Just | just | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 swallow | aux |
| 15 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the Future Buddha not said here | Buddha | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | Buddha not said here | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the Future Buddha | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | swallow in a quote | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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