The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 43
In the case of some of the stories, the figure of the Future Buddha is, so to speak, lugged in by the heels.
Who acts: figure · What happens: be, speak, lug in, figure · To what, where: case, Future Buddha · 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 (figure), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 case | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 case | det |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 some | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 case | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stories | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stories | det |
| 8 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 some | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 case | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 figure | det |
| 11 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 is | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Buddha | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Buddha | det |
| 14 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Buddha | compound |
| 15 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 figure | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 speak | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 speak | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 speak | mark |
| 20 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 is | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lugged | punct |
| 22 | lugged | lug | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 speak | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 lugged | compound:prt |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 heels | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 heels | det |
| 26 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 lugged | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | the figure of the Future Buddha | the case of some of the stories | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | the figure of the Future Buddha not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lug in | participle | the figure of the Future Buddha not said here | by the heels | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | figure | the Future Buddha | nom figure «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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