The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 16
The Future Buddha threatened him once more, and drawing his sword, smote him with it.
Who acts: Future Buddha · What happens: threaten, draw, smote · To what, where: ogre, sword
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), 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 threatened | nsubj |
| 4 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 threatened | obj |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 threatened | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 smote | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 smote | cc |
| 10 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 smote | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sword | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drawing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drawing | punct |
| 14 | smote | smote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 threatened | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 smote | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 smote | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 threatened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | past | the Future Buddha | ogre | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | draw | gerund | ogre's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||||
| 3 | smote | infinitive | the Future Buddha not said here | ogre | with sword | 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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