The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 79
But this is no remarkable thing, that you, receiving admonition from an Omniscient Buddha like me, should decide litigations righteously and justly.
Who acts: this, you, remarkable thing · What happens: be, receive, decide · To what, where: remarkable thing, admonition, Omniscient Buddha, litigations
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 (this, you, remarkable thing), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 thing | cc |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 thing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 thing | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 decide | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 receiving | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 receiving | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 receiving | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 receiving | punct |
| 11 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 thing | acl |
| 12 | admonition | admonition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 receiving | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Buddha | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Buddha | det |
| 15 | Omniscient | omniscient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Buddha | amod |
| 16 | Buddha | buddha | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 receiving | obl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 Buddha | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thing | punct |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 decide | aux |
| 21 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | litigations | litigation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 decide | obj |
| 23 | righteously | righteously | ADV | _ | 21 decide | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 justly | cc |
| 25 | justly | justly | ADV | _ | 23 righteously | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 decide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this | no remarkable thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | gerund | you | admonition | a Omniscient Buddha like me | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent admonition=Theme from buddha=Source | |||
| 3 | decide | should | no remarkable thing | litigations | righteously property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent litigation=Topic |
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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