The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 100
When the Future Buddha was seven years old, he received the ceremonial sprinkling and became known as King Noble-heart.
Who acts: Future Buddha, adversary · What happens: be, receive, become, know · To what, where: ceremonial sprinkling
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Future Buddha, adversary), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 old | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Buddha | det |
| 3 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Buddha | compound |
| 4 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 old | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 old | cop |
| 6 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 old | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 received | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 old | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 received | nsubj |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sprinkling | det |
| 13 | ceremonial | ceremonial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sprinkling | amod |
| 14 | sprinkling | sprinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 received | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 became | cc |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 received | conj |
| 17 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 became | xcomp |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 heart | case |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Noble | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Noble | Noble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Noble | punct |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 known | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Future Buddha | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | receive | past | adversary | the ceremonial sprinkling | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sprinkling=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | past | adversary not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know | participle | adversary not said here | as Noble King's heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as heart=Attribute |
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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