The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 54
The Future Buddha came back, looked about, and perceived that the tortoise had been taken captive.
Who acts: Future Buddha · What happens: come back, look, perceive, take · To what, where: tortoise
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), 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 | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 looked | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 perceived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 perceived | cc |
| 11 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 taken | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tortoise | det |
| 14 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taken | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 taken | aux:pass |
| 17 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 perceived | ccomp |
| 18 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 taken | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | the Future Buddha | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | the Future Buddha not said here | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | perceive | past | the Future Buddha not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | take | past · perfect · passive | the tortoise | captive property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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