The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 125
And seating him on his back, he proceeded to the path of men.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: seat, proceed · To what, where: Buddha, back
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 proceeded | cc |
| 2 | seating | seat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 proceeded | advcl |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seating | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 back | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 back | nmod:poss |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 seating | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 seating | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 proceeded | nsubj |
| 9 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 path | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 path | det |
| 12 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 proceeded | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 path | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | gerund | Buddha not said here | Buddha | Buddha's back | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Value | |||
| 2 | proceed | past | Buddha | to the path of men | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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