The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 116
The man, seeing that the Future Buddha had halted, himself halted.
Who acts: man, Future Buddha · What happens: see, halt
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 (man, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 halted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 man | acl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 halted | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Buddha | det |
| 7 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Buddha | compound |
| 8 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 halted | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 halted | aux |
| 10 | halted | halt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 seeing | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 halted | nsubj |
| 13 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 halted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | halt | past · perfect | the Future Buddha | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | halt | past | the man | Buddha nsubj | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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