The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 88
And having performed alms-giving and the other works of merit, the Future Buddha passed away according to his deeds.
Who acts: Future Buddha, merit · What happens: have, perform, give, pass away, accord, work · To what, where: performed alms, other works
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, merit), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 having | cc |
| 2 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 passed | advcl |
| 3 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 alms | amod |
| 4 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 having | obj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 giving | punct |
| 6 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 having | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 works | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 works | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 works | amod |
| 10 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 giving | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 merit | case |
| 12 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 works | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 having | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Buddha | det |
| 15 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Buddha | compound |
| 16 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | nsubj |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 passed | advmod |
| 19 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 deeds | case |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 according | fixed |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 22 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 passed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the Future Buddha not said here | performed alms | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Patient | ||||
| 2 | perform | participle | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | give | gerund | the Future Buddha not said here | the other works of merit | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pass away | past | the Future Buddha | accord Buddha's deeds; away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | work | merit | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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