The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 59
The Future Buddha, wherever they beat him, uttered no lament, “Women! men!” but unperturbed, uttered the following stanza:
Who acts: bodies, Future Buddha, stanza · What happens: beat, utter, follow · To what, where: Buddha, lament
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 (bodies, Future Buddha, stanza), 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 | 10 uttered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 beat | punct |
| 5 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 beat | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 beat | nsubj |
| 7 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Buddha | acl:relcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 beat | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Buddha | punct |
| 10 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 lament | det |
| 12 | lament | lament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 uttered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 men | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Women | punct |
| 15 | Women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 men | compound |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 Women | punct |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 uttered | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 men | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 men | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 unperturbed | cc |
| 21 | unperturbed | unperturbed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 uttered | punct |
| 23 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 uttered | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 stanza | det |
| 25 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 stanza | case |
| 26 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 uttered | obj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | bodies = body | Buddha | wherever property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | |||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | the Future Buddha | no lament | Women men obl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lament=Topic | |||
| 3 | utter speech: other | past | the stanza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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