The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 71
As for the Future Buddha, he waited for a month and a half from the day when the foolish caravan-leader set out, and then set out from the city with five hundred carts.
Who acts: Buddha, foolish caravan leader · What happens: wait, set out · To what, where: city
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 (Buddha, foolish caravan leader), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 Buddha | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 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 | 8 waited | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Buddha | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 waited | nsubj |
| 8 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 month | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 month | det |
| 11 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waited | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 half | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 half | det |
| 14 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 11 month | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waited | obl |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 set | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 leader | det |
| 20 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 leader | amod |
| 21 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leader | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 caravan | punct |
| 23 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | nsubj |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 waited | advcl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 set | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 set | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 set | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 set | advmod |
| 29 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 waited | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 set | compound:prt |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 city | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 city | det |
| 33 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 set | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 carts | case |
| 35 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 hundred | compound |
| 36 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 carts | nummod |
| 37 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 set | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Buddha | day; month | as the Future Buddha | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | set out | participle | the foolish caravan leader | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set out | infinitive | Buddha not said here | the city | then | with hundred carts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from city=Initial_Location |
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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