The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 46
As a trader (21), and as a wise man (22), he is merely a spectator, and contents himself with remarking on the folly of misdirected effort.
Who acts: Buddha, contents · What happens: be, remark, misdirect · To what, where: spectator, folly
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 (Buddha, contents), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 trader | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 trader | det |
| 3 | trader | trader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spectator | obl |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 21 | punct |
| 5 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 trader | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 21 | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 trader | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 man | cc |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trader | conj |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 22 | punct |
| 14 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 man | appos |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 22 | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 trader | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 spectator | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 spectator | cop |
| 19 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 21 spectator | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 spectator | det |
| 21 | spectator | spectator | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 contents | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 contents | cc |
| 24 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 21 spectator | appos |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 contents | nmod |
| 26 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 27 remarking | mark |
| 27 | remarking | remark | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 contents | acl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 folly | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 folly | det |
| 30 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 remarking | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 effort | case |
| 32 | misdirected | misdirect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 effort | amod |
| 33 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 folly | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 spectator | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Buddha | a spectator | as a trader and a wise man; contents Buddha appos; merely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | gerund | contents Buddha not said here | the folly of misdirected effort | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | misdirect | participle | vn accompany-51.7 «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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