The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 62
The Future Buddha, admonishing his two friends, said: “I, through you, have obtained my life.
Who acts: Future Buddha · What happens: admonish, say, obtain · To what, where: two friends, Future Buddha · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | 10 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 admonishing | punct |
| 5 | admonishing | admonish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Buddha | acl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 friends | nmod:poss |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 friends | nummod |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 admonishing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Buddha | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 obtained | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 obtained | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 you | punct |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 I | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 I | punct |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 obtained | aux |
| 19 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 obtained | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admonish | gerund | the Future Buddha not said here | Buddha's two friends | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Future Buddha | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | obtain in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the Future Buddha = buddha | my life obj | tree rules |
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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