The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 67
Then, girded with the five weapons, he went to Benāres and visited his mother and father.
Who acts: Buddha · What happens: gird, go, visit · To what, where: Benāres, mother
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 girded | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 girded | punct |
| 3 | girded | gird | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 weapons | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 weapons | det |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 weapons | nummod |
| 7 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 girded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 girded | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Benāres | case |
| 12 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 visited | cc |
| 14 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 visited | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 father | cc |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mother | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 girded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gird | participle | then | with the five weapons | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Buddha | Benāres | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to benāres=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | visit | past | Buddha not said here | Buddha's mother and father | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Co-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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