The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 124

Then said the Future Buddha: “Master man, don’t be afraid: I’ll conduct you to the path of man.”

Who acts: man, I · What happens: say, not be, conduct · To what, where: Future Buddha, you, path · 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, I), 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	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Buddha	det
4	Future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Buddha	amod
5	Buddha	buddha	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 afraid	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 afraid	punct
8	Master	master	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 man	nmod:poss
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 afraid	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct
11	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 afraid	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 afraid	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 afraid	cop
14	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 conduct	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 conduct	nsubj
17	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 conduct	aux
18	conduct	conduct	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 conduct	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 path	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 path	det
22	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 conduct	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 man	case
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 path	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 conduct	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 conduct	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the Future Buddha		then		tree rules
2	not is in a quote	infinitive · do-support	Master's man				afraid property	tree rules
3	conduct in a quote	future	I	you	the path of man			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to path=Destination

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 124

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 124