The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 156
On the day when he received his name, his parents, after delighting eight hundred Brahmans with all of the Pleasures of Sense, inquired regarding the signs.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: receive, delight, inquire, regard, name, please · To what, where: name, hundred Brahmans, Pleasures, Sense
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 received | obl |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 received | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 received | nsubj |
| 6 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 received | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 parents | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 parents | nmod:poss |
| 11 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 name | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 delighting | punct |
| 13 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 delighting | mark |
| 14 | delighting | delight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 received | advcl |
| 15 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hundred | compound |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 Brahmans | nummod |
| 17 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 delighting | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 delighting | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Pleasures | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Pleasures | det |
| 22 | Pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 all | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Sense | case |
| 24 | Sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Pleasures | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 inquired | punct |
| 26 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Pleasures | acl |
| 27 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 signs | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 signs | det |
| 29 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 inquired | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | Buddha | Buddha's name and Buddha's parents | day | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||
| 2 | delight | gerund | Buddha not said here | hundred Brahmans | with all of the Pleasures of Sense | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus brahman=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | participle | the Pleasures of Sense not said here | regard the signs | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | name | Buddha | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | please | Sense | nom pleasure «feeling 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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