The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 124
The illustration to Story 9, _A Buddhist Tar-baby_, represents the Future Buddha in the person of Prince Five-weapons casting a spear at the giant ogre Sticky-hair.
Who acts: illustration, Five weapons · What happens: represent, cast · To what, where: Future Buddha, spear, giant ogre
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (illustration, Five weapons), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 illustration | det |
| 2 | illustration | illustration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 represents | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Story | case |
| 4 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 illustration | nmod |
| 5 | 9 | 9 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Story | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 _ | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 _ | punct |
| 8 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 _ | det |
| 9 | Buddhist | buddhist | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 _ | amod |
| 10 | Tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 baby | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tar | punct |
| 12 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 _ | compound |
| 13 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 illustration | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 illustration | punct |
| 15 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Buddha | det |
| 17 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Buddha | compound |
| 18 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 represents | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 person | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 person | det |
| 21 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 represents | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Prince | case |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 person | nmod |
| 24 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 weapons | nummod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Five | punct |
| 26 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Prince | conj |
| 27 | casting | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 weapons | acl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 spear | det |
| 29 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 casting | obj |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 ogre | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 ogre | det |
| 32 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 ogre | amod |
| 33 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 casting | obl |
| 34 | Sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 hair | amod |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Sticky | punct |
| 36 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ogre | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 represents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present | the illustration to Story and a Buddhist baby _ | the Future Buddha | in the person of Prince and Five weapons | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot buddha=Theme in person=Attribute | |||
| 2 | cast | gerund | Five weapons not said here | a spear | the giant ogre Sticky hair | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spear=Theme at ogre=Destination |
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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