The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 78
When the Future Buddha saw him, he knew: “In this wilderness is no water; that is what is called a waterless wilderness.
Who acts: Future Buddha, Buddha, wilderness, that · What happens: see, know, be, call · To what, where: ogre, water, waterless wilderness · 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 (Future Buddha, Buddha, wilderness, that), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Buddha | det |
| 3 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Buddha | compound |
| 4 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 knew | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 water | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 water | punct |
| 12 | In | in | ADP | _ | 14 wilderness | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 wilderness | det |
| 14 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 water | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 water | cop |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knew | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 what | punct |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 what | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 what | cop |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 knew | obl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 called | aux:pass |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 wilderness | det |
| 25 | waterless | waterless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wilderness | amod |
| 26 | wilderness | wilderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 called | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Future Buddha | ogre | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | past | Buddha | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this wilderness | no water | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | call in a quote | present · passive | a waterless wilderness | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» |
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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