The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 102
Now one day the Future Buddha said to those quails: “This fowler is bringing our kinsfolk to destruction.
Who acts: Future Buddha, fowler · What happens: say, bring · To what, where: quails, kinsfolk, destruction · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. 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, fowler), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 said | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Buddha | det |
| 5 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Buddha | compound |
| 6 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 quails | case |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 quails | det |
| 10 | quails | quail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 bringing | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 bringing | punct |
| 13 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 fowler | det |
| 14 | fowler | fowler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bringing | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 bringing | aux |
| 16 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 kinsfolk | nmod:poss |
| 18 | kinsfolk | kinsfolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bringing | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 destruction | case |
| 20 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bringing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Future Buddha | that quails | now; day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to quail=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present · progressive | this fowler | our kinsfolk | destruction | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kinsfolk=Theme to destruction=Destination |
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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