The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 59
The Future Buddha, keeping not too far away and not too near, led him on and entered the forest.
Who acts: Future Buddha · What happens: keep, lead on, enter · To what, where: weak, forest
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 | 15 led | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 keeping | punct |
| 5 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Buddha | acl |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 away | advmod |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 far | advmod |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 keeping | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 near | cc |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 near | advmod |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 near | advmod |
| 13 | near | near | ADV | _ | 9 away | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Buddha | punct |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 led | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 led | compound:prt |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 entered | cc |
| 19 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 led | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 entered | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | the Future Buddha not said here | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lead on | past | the Future Buddha | weak | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | the Future Buddha not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination |
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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