The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 44
For example, little or nothing is gained by identifying the antelope caught in a trap (7) with the Future Buddha.
What happens: gain, identify, catch · To what, where: nothing, antelope, trap
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 example | case |
| 2 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 little | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 example | punct |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 gained | cc |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 gained | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gained | aux:pass |
| 8 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 little | conj |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 identifying | mark |
| 10 | identifying | identify | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 gained | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 antelope | det |
| 12 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 identifying | obj |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 antelope | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 trap | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 trap | det |
| 16 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caught | obl |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 7 | punct |
| 18 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 trap | appos |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 7 | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Buddha | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Buddha | det |
| 22 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Buddha | compound |
| 23 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 identifying | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 little | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | present · passive | nothing | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | identify | gerund | the antelope | with the Future Buddha | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent antelope=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | participle | the antelope not said here | a trap | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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