The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 105
Thus his person, adorned with the Ten Perfections, attained the pinnacle of beauty.
Who acts: person · What happens: adorn, attain · To what, where: person, pinnacle
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 person | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 person | nmod:poss |
| 3 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attained | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 adorned | punct |
| 5 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 person | acl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Perfections | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Perfections | det |
| 8 | Ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Perfections | nummod |
| 9 | Perfections | perfection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 adorned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 person | punct |
| 11 | attained | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pinnacle | det |
| 13 | pinnacle | pinnacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attained | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 beauty | case |
| 15 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pinnacle | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 attained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adorn | participle | Buddha's person not said here | with the Ten Perfections | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with perfection=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attain | past | Buddha's person | the pinnacle of beauty | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinnacle=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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