The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 3
When he reached manhood, he retired from the world and adopted the life of an ascetic, and building a leaf-hut at a certain bend in the river, took up his abode there.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: reach, retire, adopt, build, take up · To what, where: manhood, world, life, leaf hut, certain bend, abode
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 retired | advcl |
| 4 | manhood | manhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 retired | nsubj |
| 7 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 retired | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 adopted | cc |
| 12 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 retired | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 life | det |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 adopted | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ascetic | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 ascetic | det |
| 17 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 life | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 building | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 building | cc |
| 20 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 retired | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hut | det |
| 22 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hut | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 leaf | punct |
| 24 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 building | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 bend | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bend | det |
| 27 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bend | amod |
| 28 | bend | bend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 building | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 river | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 river | det |
| 31 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bend | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 took | punct |
| 33 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 retired | conj |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 took | compound:prt |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 abode | nmod:poss |
| 36 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 took | obj |
| 37 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 took | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 retired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Buddha | manhood | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent manhood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | retire | past | Buddha | the world | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from world=Source | ||||
| 3 | adopt | past | Buddha not said here | the life of a ascetic | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 4 | build | gerund | Buddha not said here | a leaf hut | a certain bend in the river | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product | |||
| 5 | take up | past | Buddha not said here | Buddha's abode | there | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=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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