The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 141

Not seeing his teacher where he had left him, but seeing the spoils scattered all about, he reflected: “It must be that my teacher disregarded my words and caused the Rain of Riches; it must be that all of those men have come to ruin.”

Who acts: Buddha, seeing, money, my · What happens: not see, leave, see, scatter, reflect, be · To what, where: teacher, the, Rain, Riches

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 (Buddha, seeing, money, my), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 seeing	advmod
2	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 reflected	advcl
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 teacher	nmod:poss
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seeing	obj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 left	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 seeing	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 scattered	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 scattered	cc
12	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 scattered	csubj:pass
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 seeing	obj
14	spoils	spoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 scattered	aux:pass
15	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 seeing	conj
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 about	advmod
17	about	about	ADV	_	15 scattered	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 seeing	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 reflected	nsubj
20	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 disregarded	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 disregarded	punct
23	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 disregarded	nsubj:outer
24	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 disregarded	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 disregarded	cop
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 disregarded	mark
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 teacher	nmod:poss
28	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 disregarded	nsubj
29	disregarded	disregard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 reflected	conj
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 words	nmod:poss
31	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 disregarded	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 caused	cc
33	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 disregarded	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Rain	det
35	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 caused	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Riches	case
37	Riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 Rain	nmod
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 come	punct
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 come	nsubj
40	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 come	aux
41	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 come	conj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 come	mark
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 come	nsubj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 men	case
45	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	46 men	det
46	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 all	nmod
47	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 come	aux
48	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 reflected	conj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 ruin	mark
50	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 come	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 reflected	punct
52	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 reflected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not see	gerund	Buddha not said here	Buddha's teacher			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer teacher=Stimulus
2	leave	past · perfect	Buddha		teacher		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	see	gerund		the			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer the=Stimulus
4	scatter	present · passive	seeing			about property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»
5	reflect	past	Buddha				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	must	money			my teacher nsubj; my words obj; disregard property	tree rules
7	cause in a quote	past	money not said here	the Rain of Riches			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rain=Patient
8	be in a quote	infinitive	money not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	come in a quote	must · perfect	money				tree rules
10	ruin in a quote	to-infinitive	money not said here				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
11	word in a quote		my				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
12	rain in a quote			Riches			nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 141