The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 128

Now the Future Buddha, having conducted that man out of the forest, set him down on the highway leading to Benāres, and said to him: “Master man, go by this road; but as for my place of abode, whether you are asked or not, say nothing to anybody about it.”

Who acts: highway, man · What happens: conduct, set down, lead, say, go, ask · To what, where: Future Buddha, man, highway, Benāres, Buddha, nothing · 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 (highway, man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 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	7 conducted	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 conducted	punct
6	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 conducted	aux
7	conducted	conduct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conducted	obj
10	out	out	ADP	_	13 forest	case
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct
15	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 conducted	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 set	obj
17	down	down	ADP	_	15 set	compound:prt
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 highway	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 highway	det
20	highway	highway	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	obl
21	leading	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 highway	acl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Benāres	case
23	Benāres	Benāres	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 leading	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 set	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	obl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 go	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 go	punct
31	Master	master	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 man	nmod:poss
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 go	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 man	punct
34	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 road	case
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 road	det
37	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 go	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 say	punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 say	cc
40	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	43 place	case
41	for	for	ADP	_	40 as	fixed
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 place	nmod:poss
43	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 say	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 abode	case
45	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 place	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 say	punct
47	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	50 asked	mark
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 asked	nsubj
49	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 asked	aux:pass
50	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 say	advcl
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 not	cc
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 asked	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 asked	punct
54	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 conducted	parataxis
55	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	54 say	obj
56	to	to	ADP	_	57 anybody	case
57	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	55 nothing	nmod
58	about	about	ADP	_	59 it	case
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 nothing	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	54 say	punct
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	54 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	conduct	gerund · perfect · passive		the Future Buddha			now	that man obj	tree rules
2	set down	infinitive		man		the highway			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on highway=Destination
3	lead	gerund	the highway not said here		Benāres				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to benāres=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past			Buddha				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go in a quote	infinitive	Master's man					by this road	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by road=Location
6	ask speech: ask in a quote	present · passive		Buddha					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
7	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		nothing	anybody			as my place of abode; about abode	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic to anybody=Recipient

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 128

The tree

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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 128