The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 5
This remarkable work, which also originated in North India, relates in mixed prose and verse the experiences of the Future Buddha in each of 550 states of existence previous to his rebirth as Gotama.
Who acts: remarkable work · What happens: originate, relate, mix, verse, experience · To what, where: North India, mixed prose, experiences, 550 states, Future Buddha
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 (remarkable work), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 work | det |
| 2 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 work | amod |
| 3 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 relates | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 originated | punct |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 originated | nsubj |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 originated | advmod |
| 7 | originated | originate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 work | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 India | case |
| 9 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 India | compound |
| 10 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 originated | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 work | punct |
| 12 | relates | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 prose | case |
| 14 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 prose | amod |
| 15 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 relates | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 verse | cc |
| 17 | verse | verse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 relates | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 experiences | det |
| 19 | experiences | experience | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 verse | obj |
| 20 | of | of | 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 | 19 experiences | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 states | case |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 states | det |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 states | case |
| 27 | 550 | 550 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 states | nummod |
| 28 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 verse | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 existence | case |
| 30 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 states | nmod |
| 31 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 states | amod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 rebirth | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 rebirth | nmod:poss |
| 34 | rebirth | rebirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 previous | obl |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 Gotama | case |
| 36 | Gotama | Gotama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 rebirth | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 relates | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | originate | past | this remarkable work | North India | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | relate | present | this remarkable work | in mixed prose goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in prose=Goal | ||||
| 3 | mix | participle | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | verse | present | this remarkable work not said here | the experiences of the Future Buddha | each 550 states of existence | tree rules | |||
| 5 | experience | the Future Buddha | nom experience «cognition 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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