The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 35

Originally a simple folk-tale, each of these stories has been converted into a birth-story by the simple literary device of identifying the highest and noblest character in the story with the Future Buddha.

Who acts: simple literary device · What happens: convert, identify · To what, where: simple folk tale, birth story, highest character, 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: who acts (simple literary device), 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	Originally	originally	ADV	_	14 converted	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tale	det
3	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tale	amod
4	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tale	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 folk	punct
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 converted	nsubj:pass
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 each	punct
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 tale	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 stories	case
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 stories	det
11	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 each	nmod
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 converted	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 converted	aux:pass
14	converted	convert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	into	into	ADP	_	19 story	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 story	det
17	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 story	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 birth	punct
19	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 converted	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	24 device	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 device	det
22	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 device	amod
23	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 device	amod
24	device	device	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 converted	obl
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 identifying	mark
26	identifying	identify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 device	acl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 character	det
28	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 character	amod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 noblest	cc
30	noblest	noble	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 highest	conj
31	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 identifying	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 story	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 story	det
34	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 identifying	obl
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 Buddha	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Buddha	det
37	Future	Future	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Buddha	compound
38	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 story	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 converted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	convert	present · perfect · passive	the simple literary device	a simple folk tale				into a birth story result; originally property	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient into story=Result
2	identify	gerund	the simple literary device not said here	the highest character		the story with the Future Buddha			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 35

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 35