The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 81

Just fifty years ago Sir Alexander Cunningham discovered among the ruins of a memorial mound or stūpa near the village of Bharahat, 120 miles southwest of Allahabad, a series of sculptures of the third century B.C., illustrating the legendary life of the Buddha and stories from the _Book of the Buddha’s Previous Existences_ or _Jātaka Book_.

Who acts: Alexander, illustrating · What happens: discover, illustrate, be, ruin · To what, where: village, legendary life, _ Book, Previous Existences, memorial mound

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 (Alexander, illustrating), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 fifty	advmod
2	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 discovered	obl:unmarked
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	3 years	advmod
5	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Alexander	nmod:desc
6	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 discovered	nsubj
7	Cunningham	Cunningham	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Alexander	flat
8	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 ruins	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ruins	det
11	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 discovered	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 mound	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mound	det
14	memorial	memorial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mound	amod
15	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ruins	nmod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 stūpa	cc
17	stūpa	stūpa	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mound	conj
18	near	near	ADP	_	20 village	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 village	det
20	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 discovered	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Bharahat	case
22	Bharahat	Bharahat	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 village	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 southwest	punct
24	120	120	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 miles	nummod
25	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 southwest	compound
26	southwest	southwest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 village	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Allahabad	case
28	Allahabad	Allahabad	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 southwest	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 series	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 series	det
31	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 village	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 sculptures	case
33	sculptures	sculpture	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 series	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 century	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 century	det
36	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	37 century	amod
37	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sculptures	nmod
38	B.C	B.C	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 century	appos
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 series	punct
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 illustrating	punct
41	illustrating	illustrate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	59 Existences	csubj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 life	det
43	legendary	legendary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 life	amod
44	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 illustrating	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 Buddha	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Buddha	det
47	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 life	nmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 stories	cc
49	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 Buddha	conj
50	from	from	ADP	_	53 Book	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 Book	det
52	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Book	compound
53	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 illustrating	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 Buddha	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Buddha	det
56	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Book	nmod
57	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 Existences	cop
58	Previous	previous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 Existences	amod
59	Existences	existence	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 discovered	parataxis
60	_	_	PUNCT	_	59 Existences	punct
61	or	or	CCONJ	_	64 Book	cc
62	_	_	PUNCT	_	64 Book	punct
63	Jātaka	Jātaka	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 Book	compound
64	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Existences	conj
65	_	_	PUNCT	_	8 discovered	punct
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past	Alexander Sir		the village of Bharahat and miles southwest of Allahabad and a series of sculptures of the third century	year	among the ruins of a memorial mound or stūpa	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	illustrate	gerund		the legendary life of the Buddha and stories	the _ Book of the Buddha			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Destination
3	is a	present	illustrating	Previous Existences or Jātaka Book			Jātaka Book conj	tree rules
4	ruin			a memorial mound or stūpa				nom ruin «state 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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 81

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 81