The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 4
The rest of the stories (except 25 and 26) are taken from the _Book of the Buddha’s Previous Existences_ or _Jātaka Book_.
What happens: take · To what, where: rest, _ Book
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 rest | det |
| 2 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 stories | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stories | det |
| 5 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rest | nmod |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 25 | punct |
| 7 | except | except | ADP | _ | 8 25 | case |
| 8 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 stories | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 26 | cc |
| 10 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 25 | conj |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 25 | punct |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | aux:pass |
| 13 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Book | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Book | det |
| 16 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Book | compound |
| 17 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 taken | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Buddha | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Buddha | det |
| 20 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Book | nmod |
| 21 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 taken | conj |
| 22 | Previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Existences | amod |
| 23 | Existences | existence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ’s | obj |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 Book | punct |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 Book | cc |
| 26 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 Book | punct |
| 27 | Jātaka | Jātaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Book | compound |
| 28 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Existences | appos |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 28 Book | punct |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · passive | the rest of the stories | the _ Book of the Buddha | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from book=Initial_Location |
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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