The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 33
It will be observed that in the older versions the Future Buddha is not mentioned at all.
What happens: observe, not mention · To what, where: source, Future Buddha, older versions
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 observed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 observed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 observed | aux:pass |
| 4 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 mentioned | mark |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 versions | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 versions | det |
| 8 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 versions | amod |
| 9 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 mentioned | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Buddha | det |
| 11 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Buddha | compound |
| 12 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 mentioned | advmod |
| 15 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 observed | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 mentioned | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | future · passive | source | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not mention speech: other | present · passive | the Future Buddha | the older versions | at all | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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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