The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 144
So saying, the Future Buddha bowed his knees together and sat down like a cow.
Who acts: Future Buddha · What happens: say, bow, sit down · To what, where: knees · 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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 bowed | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Buddha | det |
| 5 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Buddha | compound |
| 6 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bowed | nsubj |
| 7 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 knees | nmod:poss |
| 9 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 bowed | obj |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 bowed | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sat | cc |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 bowed | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 sat | compound:prt |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 cow | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cow | det |
| 16 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Future Buddha not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bow | past | the Future Buddha | Buddha's knees | together property | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Topic | |||
| 3 | sit down | past | the Future Buddha not said here | like a cow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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