The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 68
After a time becoming established in the kingdom, he ruled righteously, gave alms and performed the other works of merit, and passed away according to his deeds.
Who acts: time, Buddha, merit · What happens: become, establish, rule, give, perform, pass away · To what, where: kingdom, alms, other works
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 (time, Buddha, merit), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ruled | obl |
| 4 | becoming | become | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 time | acl |
| 5 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 becoming | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 kingdom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kingdom | det |
| 8 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 established | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ruled | nsubj |
| 11 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | righteously | righteously | ADV | _ | 11 ruled | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ruled | conj |
| 15 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 performed | cc |
| 17 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gave | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 works | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 works | amod |
| 20 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 performed | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 merit | case |
| 22 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 works | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 passed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 passed | cc |
| 25 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ruled | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 passed | advmod |
| 27 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 deeds | case |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 according | fixed |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 30 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 passed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | gerund | a time not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | establish | participle | a time not said here | the kingdom | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | rule | past | Buddha | time | righteously property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | give | past | Buddha not said here | alms | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Theme | ||||
| 5 | perform | past | Buddha not said here | the other works of merit | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pass away | participle | Buddha not said here | accord Buddha's deeds; away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | work | merit | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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