The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 110
Now a certain resident of Benāres, a forester, entered the forest, seeking wares whereby to make his living.
Who acts: certain resident, Buddha · What happens: enter, seek, ware, make, live · To what, where: forest, living
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 (certain resident, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 entered | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 resident | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 resident | amod |
| 4 | resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entered | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Benāres | case |
| 6 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 resident | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 forester | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 forester | det |
| 9 | forester | forester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Benāres | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 forester | punct |
| 11 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seeking | punct |
| 15 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 wares | nsubj |
| 16 | wares | ware | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 entered | parataxis |
| 17 | whereby | whereby | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 make | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wares | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 living | nmod:poss |
| 21 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | a certain resident of Benāres | the forest | now | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination | |||
| 2 | seek | gerund | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | ware | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | Buddha's living | whereby property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product | ||||
| 5 | live | Buddha | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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