The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 114

By performing a work of merit and making an Earnest Wish thereby to attain Enlightenment in some future state of existence, a Future Buddha, as it were, sows the Seed of Omniscience.

Who acts: Future Buddha, Enlightenment, merit · What happens: perform, make, attain, be, sow, work · To what, where: work, Earnest Wish, Enlightenment, future state, Seed

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 (Future Buddha, Enlightenment, merit), 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	By	by	SCONJ	_	2 performing	mark
2	performing	perform	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 sows	advcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 work	det
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 performing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 merit	case
6	merit	merit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 making	cc
8	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 performing	conj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Wish	det
10	Earnest	Earnest	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Wish	compound
11	Wish	Wish	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 making	obj
12	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	8 making	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 attain	mark
14	attain	attain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 making	advcl
15	Enlightenment	enlightenment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attain	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 state	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 state	det
18	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 state	amod
19	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 attain	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 existence	case
21	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 state	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 performing	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 Buddha	det
24	Future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Buddha	amod
25	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 sows	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 were	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 were	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 were	nsubj
29	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sows	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 were	punct
31	sows	sow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Seed	det
33	Seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sows	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 Omniscience	case
35	Omniscience	omniscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Seed	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 sows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perform	gerund	a Future Buddha not said here	a work of merit			vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
2	make	gerund	a Future Buddha not said here	a Earnest Wish		thereby property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wish=Product
3	attain	to-infinitive	a Future Buddha not said here	Enlightenment	some future state of existence		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enlightenment=Theme
4	be	past	Enlightenment				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sow	present	a Future Buddha	the Seed of Omniscience			tree rules
6	work		merit				nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 114

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 114