The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 9
Powerful as an elephant, endowed with mighty strength, with a single pull he reached the bank, and lifting the prince in his arms, set him ashore.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: endow, reach, lift, set · To what, where: bank, prince, arms, Buddha
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 | Powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 endowed | advcl |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 elephant | case |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 elephant | det |
| 4 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Powerful | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 endowed | punct |
| 6 | endowed | endow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 strength | case |
| 8 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 strength | amod |
| 9 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 endowed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 pull | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 pull | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pull | amod |
| 14 | pull | pull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 endowed | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bank | det |
| 18 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 set | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 set | cc |
| 21 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 set | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lifting | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 arms | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 arms | nmod:poss |
| 26 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 lifting | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lifting | punct |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 reached | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 set | obj |
| 30 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 28 set | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 endowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endow | participle | with mighty strength | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with strength=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | Buddha | the bank | with a single pull | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme | |||
| 3 | lift | gerund | the prince | Buddha's arms | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent prince=Theme in arm=Destination | ||||
| 4 | set | infinitive | Buddha not said here | Buddha | ashore property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result |
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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