The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 94
A pure white elephant is shown in the act of raising the young prince, the Future Buddha, to his shoulders.
Who acts: act · What happens: show, raise · To what, where: pure white elephant, shoulders, young prince
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 (act), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 elephant | det |
| 2 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 elephant | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 elephant | amod |
| 4 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shown | aux:pass |
| 6 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 act | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 act | det |
| 9 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shown | obl |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 raising | mark |
| 11 | raising | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 act | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prince | amod |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 raising | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Buddha | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Buddha | det |
| 17 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Buddha | compound |
| 18 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 prince | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shoulders | punct |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 shoulders | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 22 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shown | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · passive | a pure white elephant | elephant's shoulders | in the act | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in act=Topic to shoulder=Recipient | |||
| 2 | raise | gerund | the act not said here | the young prince | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |
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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