The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 11
Having thus threatened him, the Future Buddha fitted to his bow an arrow steeped in deadly poison and let fly.
Who acts: Future Buddha, arrow · What happens: have, threaten, fit, steep, let · To what, where: ogre, bow, fly
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. 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, arrow), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 fitted | advcl |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 threatened | advmod |
| 3 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Having | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threatened | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Buddha | det |
| 7 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Buddha | compound |
| 8 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fitted | nsubj |
| 9 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bow | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bow | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fitted | obl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 arrow | det |
| 14 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 steeped | nsubj |
| 15 | steeped | steep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fitted | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 poison | case |
| 17 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 poison | amod |
| 18 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 steeped | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 let | cc |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 steeped | conj |
| 21 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 fitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the Future Buddha not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | threaten | past | the Future Buddha not said here | ogre | thus property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | fit | past | the Future Buddha | to Buddha's bow goal | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent to bow=Goal | ||||
| 4 | steep | past | a arrow | in deadly poison | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in poison=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | a arrow not said here | fly | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=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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