The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 9
For the most part, the _Jātaka_ stories purport to relate incidents in Gotama’s previous states of existence as a human being.
Who acts: Jātaka stories · What happens: purport, relate · To what, where: incidents, previous states
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 (Jātaka stories), 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 | _ | 4 part | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 part | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 part | amod |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 purport | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 part | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Jātaka | det |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Jātaka | punct |
| 8 | Jātaka | Jātaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stories | compound |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Jātaka | punct |
| 10 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 purport | nsubj |
| 11 | purport | purport | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 relate | mark |
| 13 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 purport | xcomp |
| 14 | incidents | incident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 relate | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 states | case |
| 16 | Gotama | Gotama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 states | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Gotama | case |
| 18 | previous | previous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 states | amod |
| 19 | states | state | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 relate | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 existence | case |
| 21 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 states | nmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 human | mark |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 human | det |
| 24 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 relate | advcl |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 human | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 purport | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purport | present | Jātaka stories | for the most part | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | relate | to-infinitive | Jātaka stories not said here | incidents | in Gotama's previous states of existence goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent incident=Theme in state=Goal |
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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