The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 9
At that time the Future Buddha was reborn in the household of a caravan-leader.
What happens: reborn · To what, where: Future Buddha, household
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reborn | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Buddha | det |
| 5 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Buddha | compound |
| 6 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 reborn | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reborn | aux:pass |
| 8 | reborn | reborn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 household | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 household | det |
| 11 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reborn | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 leader | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 leader | det |
| 14 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leader | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 caravan | punct |
| 16 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 household | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reborn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reborn | past · passive | the Future Buddha | the household of a caravan leader | time | tree rules |
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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