The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 123
Then the Future Buddha conducted him to his own place of abode, and for a few days gladdened him with fruits and other edibles.
Who acts: Future Buddha · What happens: conduct, gladden · To what, where: Devadatta, own place, Buddha
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 conducted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Buddha | det |
| 3 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Buddha | compound |
| 4 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 conducted | nsubj |
| 5 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 conducted | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 place | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 conducted | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 abode | case |
| 12 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gladdened | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gladdened | cc |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 days | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 days | det |
| 17 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 days | amod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gladdened | obl |
| 19 | gladdened | gladden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 conducted | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gladdened | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 fruits | case |
| 22 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gladdened | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 edibles | cc |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 edibles | amod |
| 25 | edibles | edible | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fruits | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 conducted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | past | the Future Buddha | Devadatta | Buddha's own place of abode | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to place=Destination | ||
| 2 | gladden | past | the Future Buddha not said here | Buddha | day | with fruits and other edibles | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with fruit=Instrument |
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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