The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 45
Said the Future Buddha: “If I have need, I’ll think about it.”
Who acts: Future Buddha · What happens: say, have, think · To what, where: need · 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Buddha | det |
| 3 | Future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Buddha | amod |
| 4 | Buddha | buddha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 7 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 have | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | advcl |
| 10 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 13 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 think | aux |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 think | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Future Buddha | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the Future Buddha = buddha | need | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | future | the Future Buddha = buddha | about need | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic |
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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