The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 83
Now one day the Brahman, accompanied by the Future Buddha, departed from his own village and set out for the kingdom of Cetiya on some business or other.
Who acts: Brahman · What happens: accompany, depart, set out · To what, where: Brahman, own village, business
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 (Brahman), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 departed | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Now | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Brahman | det |
| 5 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 departed | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 accompanied | punct |
| 7 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Brahman | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 Buddha | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Buddha | det |
| 10 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Buddha | compound |
| 11 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 accompanied | obl:agent |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Brahman | punct |
| 13 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 village | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 village | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 village | amod |
| 17 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 departed | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 departed | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 set | compound:prt |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 kingdom | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kingdom | det |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Cetiya | case |
| 25 | Cetiya | Cetiya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 kingdom | nmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 business | case |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 business | det |
| 28 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 other | cc |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 business | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | participle | the Brahman not said here | the Future Buddha obl:agent | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | depart | past | the Brahman | Brahman's own village | now | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from village=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | set out | past | the Brahman not said here | some business | for the kingdom of Cetiya | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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