The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 16
In times past, when Brahmadatta ruled at Benāres, the Future Buddha was an antelope and made his home in a certain thicket in a forest, not far from a certain lake.
Who acts: Brahmadatta, Future Buddha · What happens: rule, be, make · To what, where: Benāres, antelope, home, certain thicket
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 (Brahmadatta, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 times | case |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ruled | obl |
| 3 | past | past | ADV | _ | 2 times | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 times | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 ruled | advmod |
| 6 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | nsubj |
| 7 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Benāres | case |
| 9 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 antelope | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Buddha | det |
| 12 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Buddha | compound |
| 13 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 antelope | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 antelope | cop |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 antelope | det |
| 16 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Benāres | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ruled | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 home | nmod:poss |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 thicket | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 thicket | det |
| 23 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 thicket | amod |
| 24 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 forest | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 forest | det |
| 27 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 made | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 far | punct |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 far | advmod |
| 30 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 made | advmod |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 lake | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 lake | det |
| 33 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 lake | amod |
| 34 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 far | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | Brahmadatta | Benāres | time | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the Future Buddha | a antelope | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Brahmadatta not said here | Brahmadatta's home | a certain thicket | in a forest; far property | 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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