The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 91
Having captured the Brahman Vedabbha, they despatched the Future Buddha.
Who acts: Vedabbha · What happens: have, capture, despatch · To what, where: Brahman Vedabbha, Future 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 (Vedabbha), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 despatched | advcl |
| 2 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Vedabbha | det |
| 4 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Vedabbha | compound |
| 5 | Vedabbha | Vedabbha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 captured | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 despatched | nsubj |
| 8 | despatched | despatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 8 despatched | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 despatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Vedabbha not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | capture | participle | Vedabbha not said here | the Brahman Vedabbha | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vedabbha=Theme | ||||
| 3 | despatch | past | Vedabbha | the Future Buddha | 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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