The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 77
When he reached the middle of the wilderness, that ogre showed himself in the path of the Future Buddha in precisely the same way as before.
Who acts: Buddha, ogre · What happens: reach, show · To what, where: middle, Buddha
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, ogre), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 showed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 middle | det |
| 5 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wilderness | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wilderness | det |
| 8 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 middle | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 ogre | det |
| 11 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 showed | nsubj |
| 12 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 showed | iobj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 path | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 path | det |
| 16 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 showed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Buddha | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Buddha | det |
| 19 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Buddha | compound |
| 20 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 path | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 22 | precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 25 way | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 way | amod |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 showed | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 before | advmod |
| 27 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 showed | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Buddha | the middle of the wilderness | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent middle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | past | that ogre | Buddha | in the same way; in the path of the Future Buddha; before property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in path=Topic |
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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