The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 62
In such wise did the Future Buddha recite the disadvantages of doing deeds contrary to the Precepts, and the advantages of keeping the Five Precepts.
Who acts: Future Buddha, disadvantages, advantages · What happens: recite, do, deed, keep · To what, where: advantages, such wise, Five Precepts
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, disadvantages, advantages), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 wise | case |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wise | amod |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 recite | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 recite | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Buddha | det |
| 6 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Buddha | compound |
| 7 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 recite | nsubj |
| 8 | recite | recite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 disadvantages | det |
| 10 | disadvantages | disadvantage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 deeds | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 doing | mark |
| 12 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 disadvantages | acl |
| 13 | deeds | deed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 recite | ccomp |
| 14 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deeds | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Precepts | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Precepts | det |
| 17 | Precepts | Precept | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 contrary | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 advantages | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 advantages | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 advantages | det |
| 21 | advantages | advantage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 recite | obl |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 keeping | mark |
| 23 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 advantages | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Precepts | det |
| 25 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 Precepts | nummod |
| 26 | Precepts | Precept | PROPN | Number=Plur | 23 keeping | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 recite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recite | past · do-support | the Future Buddha | the advantages | such wise | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do | gerund | the disadvantages not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | deed | present | the disadvantages | contrary property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | gerund | the advantages not said here | the Five Precepts | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precept=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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