The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 37
The Future Buddha, snared five times, stuck fast in five places, dangled from the ogre’s body.
Who acts: Future Buddha · What happens: snare, stick, dangle · To what, where: five places, body
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 | 5 snared | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Buddha | punct |
| 5 | snared | snare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 times | nummod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 snared | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stuck | punct |
| 9 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 snared | parataxis |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 stuck | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 places | case |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 places | nummod |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stuck | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dangled | punct |
| 15 | dangled | dangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 places | acl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 body | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ogre | det |
| 18 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 body | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 ogre | case |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dangled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 snared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snare | past | the Future Buddha | time | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stick | participle | five places | fast property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in place=Destination | ||||
| 3 | dangle | participle | five places not said here | the ogre's body | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: 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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