The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 30
But in a later form of the story, _Jātaka_ 371, we are expressly told that the generous prince was none other than the Future Buddha.
Who acts: generous prince · What happens: tell, be, form · To what, where: we, later form, none, story · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (generous prince), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 form | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 form | det |
| 4 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 form | amod |
| 5 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 form | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jātaka | punct |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jātaka | punct |
| 11 | Jātaka | Jātaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 form | appos |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 371 | punct |
| 13 | 371 | 371 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 Jātaka | list |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 form | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 told | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 told | aux:pass |
| 17 | expressly | expressly | ADV | _ | 18 told | advmod |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 none | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 prince | det |
| 21 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 prince | amod |
| 22 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 none | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 none | cop |
| 24 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 18 told | iobj |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 none | amod |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 Buddha | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Buddha | det |
| 28 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Buddha | compound |
| 29 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 other | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | we | a later form of the story | expressly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient none=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the generous prince | none | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | 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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