The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 34

He grew up to be a fine big animal, acquired a retinue of eighty thousand elephants, and becoming the leader of a herd, made his home in the Himālaya region.

Who acts: Buddha · What happens: grow up, be, acquire, become, make · To what, where: fine big animal, retinue, leader, home, Himālaya region

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 grew	compound:prt
4	to	to	PART	_	9 animal	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 animal	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 animal	det
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animal	amod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animal	amod
9	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grew	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 acquired	punct
11	acquired	acquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 retinue	det
13	retinue	retinue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 acquired	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 elephants	case
15	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 thousand	compound
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 elephants	nummod
17	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 retinue	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 made	cc
20	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 made	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 leader	det
22	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 becoming	xcomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 herd	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 herd	det
25	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leader	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 becoming	punct
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 home	nmod:poss
29	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 region	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 region	det
32	Himālaya	Himālaya	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 region	compound
33	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	grow up	past	Buddha			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	to-infinitive	Buddha not said here	a fine big animal		tree rules
3	acquire	past	Buddha not said here	a retinue of thousand elephants		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset retinue=Theme
4	become	gerund		the leader of a herd		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	make	past	Buddha not said here	Buddha's home	the Himālaya region	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 34