The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 98
Thenceforth the Future Buddha had complete mastery over all the Land of the Rose-apple.
Who acts: Future Buddha · What happens: have · To what, where: complete mastery, Land
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), 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 | Thenceforth | thenceforth | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 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 | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mastery | amod |
| 7 | mastery | mastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 Land | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 Land | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Land | det |
| 11 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 apple | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 apple | det |
| 14 | Rose | Rose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 apple | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rose | punct |
| 16 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Land | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Future Buddha | complete mastery | all Land of the Rose apple | thenceforth property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mastery=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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