The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 82
Accordingly the Future Buddha said to the ogre: “You go your way.
Who acts: Future Buddha, ogre · What happens: say, go · To what, where: ogre, way · 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, 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 5 said | 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 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ogre | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ogre | det |
| 8 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 11 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Future Buddha | the ogre | accordingly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ogre=Recipient | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | the ogre = ogre | your way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
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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