The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 76
Having thus admonished his men, he struck into the wilderness with his five hundred carts.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: have, admonish, strike · To what, where: men, wilderness
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), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 admonished | reparandum |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 admonished | advmod |
| 3 | admonished | admonish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 men | nmod:poss |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 admonished | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 struck | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 struck | nsubj |
| 8 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 admonished | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 wilderness | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wilderness | det |
| 11 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 struck | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 carts | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 carts | nmod:poss |
| 14 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hundred | compound |
| 15 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 carts | nummod |
| 16 | carts | cart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 struck | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 admonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | admonish | past | Buddha's men | thus property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | Buddha | into the wilderness result; with Buddha's hundred carts | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent into wilderness=Result with cart=Instrument |
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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