The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 119
He has no desire to do me harm, but without a doubt desires only to free me from this suffering.”
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: have, do, harm, desire · To what, where: desire, me
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 desire | det |
| 4 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 desire | acl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | iobj |
| 8 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 do | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 desires | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 desires | cc |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 13 doubt | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 doubt | det |
| 13 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 desires | obl |
| 14 | desires | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 has | parataxis |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 free | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 free | mark |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 desires | xcomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 free | nsubj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 suffering | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 suffering | det |
| 21 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 free | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 desires | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Buddha | no desire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Buddha not said here | no desire not said here | me | tree rules | |||
| 3 | harm | infinitive | Buddha not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | desire | present | without a doubt; free property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot |
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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