The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 136
Accordingly, obtaining provisions for the journey and taking a sharp saw, he went to the place of abode of the Future Buddha.
Who acts: elephant · What happens: obtain, take, go · To what, where: provisions, sharp saw, place
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 (elephant), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 obtaining | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Accordingly | punct |
| 3 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 went | advcl |
| 4 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 obtaining | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 journey | det |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obtaining | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 taking | cc |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 obtaining | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 saw | det |
| 11 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 saw | amod |
| 12 | saw | saw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 obtaining | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 abode | case |
| 20 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 place | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Buddha | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Buddha | det |
| 23 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Buddha | compound |
| 24 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 abode | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | gerund | elephant not said here | provisions | for the journey; accordingly property | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent provision=Theme for journey=Asset | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | elephant not said here | a sharp saw | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saw=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | elephant | the place of abode of the Future Buddha | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location |
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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