The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 51
Seeing the Future Buddha even from afar, he thought: “Here’s that false ascetic, come to live with me and eat his fill!
Who acts: Buddha, false ascetic · What happens: see, think, come, live, eat · To what, where: Future Buddha, fill · 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 (Buddha, false ascetic), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 thought | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Buddha | det |
| 3 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Buddha | compound |
| 4 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 afar | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 afar | case |
| 7 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Buddha | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 ’s | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Here | punct |
| 13 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 ’s | advmod |
| 14 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 16 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ascetic | amod |
| 17 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ascetic | punct |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ’s | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 live | mark |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 live | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 eat | cc |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 live | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 fill | nmod:poss |
| 27 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eat | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Buddha not said here | the Future Buddha | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buddha=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Buddha | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | false ascetic | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | live in a quote | to-infinitive | false ascetic not said here | with Buddha | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | ||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | infinitive | false ascetic not said here | Buddha's fill | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient |
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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