The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 146
The Future Buddha, taking those tusks in his trunk, said: “Master man, not with the thought, ‘These tusks are not dear to me, not pleasing to me,’ do I give you these tusks.
Who acts: Future Buddha, tusks · What happens: take, say, not be, not please, give · To what, where: tusks, trunk, Future Buddha, you · 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, tusks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Buddha | det |
| 2 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Buddha | compound |
| 3 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 taking | punct |
| 5 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Buddha | acl |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 tusks | det |
| 7 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 taking | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 trunk | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 10 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Buddha | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 15 | Master | master | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 man | nmod:poss |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 thought | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 thought | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 thought | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 thought | det |
| 21 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dear | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 dear | punct |
| 24 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 tusks | det |
| 25 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 dear | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 dear | cop |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 dear | advmod |
| 28 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 me | case |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 dear | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pleasing | punct |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 pleasing | advmod |
| 33 | pleasing | please | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 me | case |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 pleasing | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 give | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 40 give | cc |
| 38 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 give | aux |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 give | nsubj |
| 40 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 give | iobj |
| 42 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 43 tusks | det |
| 43 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 give | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | the Future Buddha not said here | that tusks | Buddha's trunk | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tusk=Value in trunk=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Future Buddha | Master's man and the thought ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | this tusks | the Future Buddha = buddha | dear property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not please in a quote | gerund | the Future Buddha not said here | the Future Buddha = buddha | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | give in a quote | present · do-support | the Future Buddha = buddha | this tusks | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient tusk=Theme |
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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