The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 118
_ The oldest texts mention only seven Buddhas.
Who acts: oldest texts · What happens: mention · To what, where: seven Buddhas
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 (oldest texts), 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 | _ | 5 mention | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 texts | det |
| 3 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 texts | amod |
| 4 | texts | text | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mention | nsubj |
| 5 | mention | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 seven | advmod |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 Buddhas | nummod |
| 8 | Buddhas | buddha | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mention | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | present | the oldest texts | seven Buddhas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent buddha=Topic |
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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