The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 21

In the very first watch of the night the Future Buddha, coming to drink of the water, became entangled in the trap and cried the cry of a captured animal.

Who acts: Future Buddha, captured animal · What happens: come, drink, entangle, cry, capture · To what, where: cry

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 (Future Buddha, captured animal), 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	_	5 watch	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 watch	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 first	advmod
4	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 watch	amod
5	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 entangled	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 night	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watch	nmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Buddha	det
10	Future	Future	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Buddha	compound
11	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 night	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 coming	punct
13	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 Buddha	acl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 drink	mark
15	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 coming	xcomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 water	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drink	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 watch	punct
20	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 entangled	aux:pass
21	entangled	entangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 trap	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 trap	det
24	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 entangled	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cried	cc
26	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 entangled	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cry	det
28	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cried	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 animal	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 animal	det
31	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 animal	amod
32	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 cry	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 entangled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	gerund	the Future Buddha not said here			tree rules
2	drink	to-infinitive	the Future Buddha not said here		of the water	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of water=Source
3	entangle	past · passive			in the trap; in the first watch of the night the Future Buddha	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: in watch=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past		the cry of a captured animal		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Topic
5	capture	participle				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	cry		a captured animal			nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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 7, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 21