The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 74
And conferring the ceremonial sprinkling on the Future Buddha, they established him in the kingdom.
Who acts: ceremonial, feet · What happens: confer, sprinkle, establish · To what, where: ceremonial, Future Buddha, king, kingdom
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 (ceremonial, feet), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 conferring | cc |
| 2 | conferring | confer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ceremonial | det |
| 4 | ceremonial | ceremonial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 conferring | obj |
| 5 | sprinkling | sprinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 ceremonial | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Buddha | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Buddha | det |
| 8 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Buddha | compound |
| 9 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sprinkling | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 established | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 established | nsubj |
| 12 | established | establish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 conferring | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 established | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 kingdom | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 kingdom | det |
| 16 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 established | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 conferring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confer | gerund | the ceremonial | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sprinkle | gerund | the ceremonial not said here | the Future Buddha | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on buddha=Destination | ||||
| 3 | establish | past | feet = foot | king | the kingdom | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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