The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 64
_ A sacred river of North India, in the valley of which Buddhism took its rise.
Who acts: Buddhism, valley · What happens: take, rise · To what, where: rise, sacred river
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 (Buddhism, valley), 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 | _ | 4 river | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 river | det |
| 3 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 river | amod |
| 4 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 India | case |
| 6 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 India | compound |
| 7 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 river | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 valley | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 valley | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 valley | det |
| 11 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 river | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 took | obl |
| 14 | Buddhism | Buddhism | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 valley | acl:relcl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 rise | nmod:poss |
| 17 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 river | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Buddhism | valley's rise | of the valley | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent rise=Theme of which=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | rise | valley | nom rise «event intransitive»: poss=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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