The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 9
But the Future Buddha said to him: “Ogre, I knew what I was about when I entered this forest.
Who acts: Future Buddha · What happens: say, know, be, enter · To what, where: ogre, forest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Future 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Buddha | det |
| 3 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Buddha | compound |
| 4 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ogre | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Ogre | punct |
| 10 | Ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knew | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Ogre | acl:relcl |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 entered | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 about | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 about | cop |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 entered | advmod |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 entered | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 entered | nsubj |
| 20 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 knew | ccomp |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 entered | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Future Buddha | ogre | Ogre ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | know in a quote | past | the Future Buddha = buddha | Ogre not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | the Future Buddha = buddha | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | enter in a quote | past | the Future Buddha = buddha | this forest | what obj | tree rules |
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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