The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 118
The man fled a second time, but halting when the Future Buddha halted, thought: “This elephant halts when I flee, and approaches when I halt.
Who acts: man, Future Buddha, halting, elephant · What happens: flee, halt, think, approach · Speech: someone speaks here
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, halting, elephant), 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 | 3 fled | nsubj |
| 3 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fled | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 9 | halting | halt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 thought | csubj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 halted | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Buddha | det |
| 12 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Buddha | compound |
| 13 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 halted | nsubj |
| 14 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 halting | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 halted | punct |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fled | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 halts | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 halts | punct |
| 19 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 elephant | det |
| 20 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 halts | nsubj |
| 21 | halts | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fled | parataxis |
| 22 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 flee | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 flee | nsubj |
| 24 | flee | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 halts | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 approaches | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 approaches | cc |
| 27 | approaches | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 halts | conj |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 halt | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 halt | nsubj |
| 30 | halt | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 approaches | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past | the man | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | halt | gerund | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | halt | past | the Future Buddha | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | halting | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | halt in a quote | present | this elephant | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | flee in a quote | present | the Future Buddha = buddha | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | approach in a quote | present | this elephant not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | halt in a quote | present | the Future Buddha = buddha | 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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