The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 5
Then the Exalted One aroused the attention of the merchant by saying: “I, O householder, fulfilled the Ten Perfections during a period of time which cannot be measured, and penetrated Omniscience, for the sole purpose of rending asunder the doubt of the world.
Who acts: Exalted One, merchant, sole purpose · What happens: exalt, arouse, say, fulfil, not measure, penetrate · To what, where: attention, Ten Perfections, time, Omniscience, asunder, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Exalted One, merchant, sole purpose), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 aroused | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 One | det |
| 3 | Exalted | exalt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 One | amod |
| 4 | One | One | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 aroused | nsubj |
| 5 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 attention | det |
| 7 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aroused | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 merchant | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 merchant | det |
| 10 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attention | nmod |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 saying | mark |
| 12 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 aroused | advcl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 fulfilled | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 fulfilled | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 fulfilled | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 householder | punct |
| 17 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 18 householder | discourse |
| 18 | householder | householder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 I | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 householder | punct |
| 20 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 aroused | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Perfections | det |
| 22 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 Perfections | nummod |
| 23 | Perfections | perfection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fulfilled | obj |
| 24 | during | during | ADP | _ | 26 period | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 period | det |
| 26 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fulfilled | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 period | nmod |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 measured | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 measured | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 measured | advmod |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 measured | aux:pass |
| 33 | measured | measure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 time | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 penetrated | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 penetrated | cc |
| 36 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fulfilled | conj |
| 37 | Omniscience | omniscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 penetrated | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 purpose | punct |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 purpose | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 purpose | det |
| 41 | sole | sole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 purpose | amod |
| 42 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 penetrated | obl |
| 43 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 44 rending | mark |
| 44 | rending | rend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 purpose | acl |
| 45 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rending | obj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 doubt | det |
| 47 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 rending | obj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 world | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 world | det |
| 50 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 doubt | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 aroused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exalt | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | arouse | past | the Exalted One | the attention of the merchant | then | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Exalted One not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fulfil in a quote | past | merchant | the Ten Perfections | during a period of time | tree rules | |||
| 5 | not measure in a quote | can · passive | time | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | |||||
| 6 | penetrate in a quote | past | merchant not said here | Omniscience | for the sole purpose | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent omniscience=Patient | |||
| 7 | rend in a quote | gerund | the sole purpose not said here | asunder | the doubt of the world obj | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent asunder=Patient doubt=Result | |||
| 8 | attend | the merchant | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 9 | doubt in a quote | the world | nom doubt «cognition 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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