The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 93
The Future Buddha thought: “Since I have been ruling righteously, no men at all have come for litigation, the hubbub has ceased, the place of litigation has become abandoned.
Who acts: Future Buddha, men, place · What happens: think, rule, come, cease, become, abandon · To what, where: hubbub · 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, men, place), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 7 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 11 ruling | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ruling | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ruling | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 ruling | aux |
| 11 | ruling | rule | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 come | advcl |
| 12 | righteously | righteously | ADV | _ | 11 ruling | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 men | punct |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 men | det |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 come | nsubj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 men | nmod |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 litigation | case |
| 21 | litigation | litigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ceased | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hubbub | det |
| 24 | hubbub | hubbub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 ceased | aux |
| 26 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 come | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 place | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 place | det |
| 29 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 become | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 litigation | case |
| 31 | litigation | litigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 place | nmod |
| 32 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 become | aux |
| 33 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 ceased | parataxis |
| 34 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 become | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Future Buddha | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rule in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | the Future Buddha = buddha | righteously property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · perfect | no men at all | for litigation | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cease in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the hubbub | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | become in a quote | present · perfect | the place of litigation | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | abandon in a quote | participle | the place of litigation not said here | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=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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