The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 112
The Future Buddha, hearing those profound lamentations of his, thought: “I will free this man from his suffering.”
Who acts: Future Buddha, Buddha · What happens: hear, think, lament, suffer · To what, where: profound lamentations, Buddha
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 (Future Buddha, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Buddha | det |
| 2 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Buddha | compound |
| 3 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Buddha | punct |
| 5 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Buddha | acl |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 lamentations | det |
| 7 | profound | profound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lamentations | amod |
| 8 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hearing | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 his | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lamentations | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Buddha | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 free | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 free | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 free | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 free | aux |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 man | det |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 free | nsubj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 suffering | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 suffering | nmod:poss |
| 22 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 man | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 free | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the Future Buddha not said here | that profound lamentations of Buddha | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lamentation=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the Future Buddha | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lament | Buddha | nom lamentation «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | suffer in a quote | Buddha | nom suffering «state 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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