The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 29
In this, the oldest form of the story, the Future Buddha is not even mentioned.
What happens: not mention, form · To what, where: Future Buddha, oldest form, story
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 6 form | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 form | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 form | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 form | det |
| 5 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 form | amod |
| 6 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mentioned | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 form | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 form | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Buddha | det |
| 12 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Buddha | compound |
| 13 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 mentioned | advmod |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 mentioned | advmod |
| 17 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 mentioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mention speech: other | present · passive | the Future Buddha | the oldest form this of the story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | form | the story | nom form «communication 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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