The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 83
Even as the Future Buddha spoke, he swooned from the effect of the poison, rolled his eyes, dropped his shoulders, and fell.
Who acts: Future Buddha, Buddha · What happens: speak, swoon, roll, drop, fall, effect · To what, where: eyes, shoulders, poison · 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 6 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 spoke | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Buddha | det |
| 4 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Buddha | compound |
| 5 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 spoke | nsubj |
| 6 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 swooned | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 swooned | nsubj |
| 9 | swooned | swoon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spoke | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 effect | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 effect | det |
| 12 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swooned | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 poison | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 poison | det |
| 15 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 effect | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rolled | punct |
| 17 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 swooned | parataxis |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rolled | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dropped | punct |
| 21 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 rolled | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 23 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dropped | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fell | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fell | cc |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spoke | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the Future Buddha | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | swoon | past | Buddha | from the effect of the poison | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from effect=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | roll | past | Buddha's eyes | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Agent | |||||
| 4 | drop | past | Buddha's shoulders | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | the Future Buddha not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | effect | the poison | nom effect «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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