The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 122
“Master, because I couldn’t distinguish the directions, lost my way, and was afraid of death.”
Who acts: Future Buddha, directions · What happens: not distinguish, lose, be · To what, where: directions, way, Master
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, directions), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 2 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 distinguish | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 distinguish | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 distinguish | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 distinguish | aux |
| 7 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 distinguish | advmod |
| 8 | distinguish | distinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Master | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 directions | det |
| 10 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 distinguish | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lost | punct |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 directions | acl |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 afraid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 afraid | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 afraid | cop |
| 18 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 distinguish | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 afraid | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not distinguish in a quote | could | the Future Buddha = buddha | the directions | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute direction=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | participle | the directions not said here | my way | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | the Future Buddha = buddha not said here | of death; afraid property | tree rules |
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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