The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 115
The Future Buddha, seeing him in flight, halted right where he was.
Who acts: Future Buddha, Buddha · What happens: see, halt, be · To what, where: Buddha, flight
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 | 10 halted | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Buddha | punct |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Buddha | acl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seeing | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 flight | case |
| 8 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Buddha | punct |
| 10 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | right | right | ADV | _ | 12 where | advmod |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 was | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 was | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 halted | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 halted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the Future Buddha not said here | Buddha | flight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | halt | past | the Future Buddha | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | past | Buddha | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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