The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 65
Then he transformed him into a spirit entitled to receive offerings in the forest, and having admonished him to be heedful, departed from the forest.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: transform, entitle, receive, have, admonish, be · To what, where: ogre, spirit, offerings, forest, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 transformed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 transformed | nsubj |
| 3 | transformed | transform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 transformed | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 spirit | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spirit | det |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 transformed | obl |
| 8 | entitled | entitle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 spirit | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 receive | mark |
| 10 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 entitled | xcomp |
| 11 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 receive | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 receive | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 admonished | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 admonished | cc |
| 17 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 admonished | reparandum |
| 18 | admonished | admonish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 transformed | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 admonished | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 heedful | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 heedful | cop |
| 22 | heedful | heedful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 admonished | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 departed | punct |
| 24 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 heedful | conj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 forest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 forest | det |
| 27 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 departed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 transformed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | past | Buddha | ogre | then | into a spirit result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient into spirit=Result | ||
| 2 | entitle | participle | a spirit not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | receive | to-infinitive | offerings | the forest | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent offering=Theme in forest=Location | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | admonish | past | Buddha not said here | Buddha | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | Buddha not said here | heedful property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | depart | participle | Buddha not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from forest=Initial_Location |
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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