The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 5
Accordingly, this tree has a symbolic value for Buddhists corresponding to that which the Cross has for Christians, and is frequently sculptured on the monuments.
Who acts: tree, Buddhists, Cross · What happens: have, correspond, sculpture · To what, where: symbolic value, Christians, monuments
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 (tree, Buddhists, Cross), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 5 has | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Accordingly | punct |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 value | det |
| 7 | symbolic | symbolic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 value | amod |
| 8 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Buddhists | case |
| 10 | Buddhists | buddhist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 value | nmod |
| 11 | corresponding | correspond | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Buddhists | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 corresponding | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 has | obj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Cross | det |
| 16 | Cross | Cross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 has | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 corresponding | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 Christians | case |
| 19 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 has | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sculptured | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sculptured | cc |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sculptured | aux:pass |
| 23 | frequently | frequently | ADV | _ | 24 sculptured | advmod |
| 24 | sculptured | sculpture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 has | conj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 monuments | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 monuments | det |
| 27 | monuments | monument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sculptured | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | this tree | a symbolic value | for Buddhists; accordingly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Patient | |||
| 2 | correspond | gerund | Buddhists not said here | to Buddhists | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | present | the Cross | Christians | which obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | sculpture | present · passive | this tree not said here | the monuments | frequently property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» |
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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