The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 18
The Future Buddha, having remained on earth during the term of life allotted to him, passed away according to his deeds.
Who acts: Future Buddha · What happens: remain, allot, pass away, accord, term · To what, where: earth, life
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), 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 | 6 remained | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Buddha | punct |
| 5 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 remained | aux |
| 6 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 earth | case |
| 8 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remained | obl |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 11 term | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 term | det |
| 11 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remained | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 term | nmod |
| 14 | allotted | allot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 life | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 allotted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 passed | punct |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 remained | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 passed | advmod |
| 20 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 deeds | case |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 according | fixed |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 23 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 passed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | gerund · perfect | the Future Buddha | earth | during the term of life | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location | |||
| 2 | allot | participle | life not said here | earth | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to he=Goal | ||||
| 3 | pass away | participle | the Future Buddha not said here | accord earth's deeds; away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | term | life | nom term «communication transitive»: of=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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