The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 63
With one reason after another he terrified the ogre, preached the Doctrine to him, subdued him, made him self-denying.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: terrify, preach, subdue, make, deny · To what, where: ogre, Doctrine, Buddha
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), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 reason | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 reason | nummod |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 terrified | obl |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 another | case |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 reason | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 terrified | nsubj |
| 7 | terrified | terrify | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ogre | det |
| 9 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 terrified | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 preached | punct |
| 11 | preached | preach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 terrified | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Doctrine | det |
| 13 | Doctrine | Doctrine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 preached | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 preached | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 subdued | punct |
| 17 | subdued | subdue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 terrified | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 subdued | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 terrified | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | obj |
| 22 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 denying | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 self | punct |
| 24 | denying | deny | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 made | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | terrify | past | Buddha | the ogre | with one reason after another | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ogre=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | preach speech: other | past | Buddha not said here | the Doctrine | Buddha | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent doctrine=Topic to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | subdue | past | Buddha not said here | Buddha | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Buddha not said here | Buddha | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | ||||
| 5 | deny | gerund | Buddha not said here | self compound | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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