The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 104
_ A man who has taken a vow to remain single, and to devote himself to meditation and good works in accordance with the teachings of the Buddha.
Who acts: man · What happens: take, remain, devote, teach · To what, where: vow, man, accordance, Buddha
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 vow | det |
| 8 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 remain | mark |
| 10 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 vow | acl |
| 11 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 remain | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 devote | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 devote | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 devote | mark |
| 15 | devote | devote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 taken | conj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 devote | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 meditation | case |
| 18 | meditation | meditation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 devote | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 works | cc |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 works | amod |
| 21 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 meditation | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 accordance | case |
| 23 | accordance | accordance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 devote | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 teachings | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 teachings | det |
| 26 | teachings | teaching | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 devote | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Buddha | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Buddha | det |
| 29 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 teachings | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · perfect | a man | a vow | who nsubj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Theme | |||
| 2 | remain | to-infinitive | a man not said here | a vow not said here | single property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | devote | to-infinitive | a man not said here | man | accordance | to meditation and good works goal; with the teachings of the Buddha | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to meditation=Goal | ||
| 4 | teach | the Buddha | nom teaching «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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