The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 37
The attempt to introduce the Future Buddha into the stories is not always carried out in a way to satisfy or convince the reader.
What happens: introduce, not carry out, satisfy, convince · To what, where: Future Buddha, stories, attempt, way, reader
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 attempt | det |
| 2 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 introduce | mark |
| 4 | introduce | introduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 attempt | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Buddha | det |
| 6 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Buddha | compound |
| 7 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 introduce | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 stories | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stories | det |
| 10 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 introduce | obl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 carried | aux:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 carried | advmod |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 carried | advmod |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 carried | compound:prt |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 satisfy | mark |
| 20 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 way | acl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 convince | cc |
| 22 | convince | convince | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 satisfy | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 reader | det |
| 24 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 convince | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | introduce | to-infinitive | the Future Buddha | the stories | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buddha=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not carry out | present · passive | the attempt | a way | always property | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | satisfy | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | convince | infinitive | the reader | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus reader=Experiencer |
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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