The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 92
The Future Buddha bowed to his teacher and said: “I will return in the course of a day or two.
Who acts: Future Buddha · What happens: bow, say, return · To what, where: course · 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Buddha | det |
| 2 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Buddha | compound |
| 3 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 bowed | nsubj |
| 4 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 teacher | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 7 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bowed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bowed | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 return | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 return | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 return | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 return | aux |
| 14 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 course | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 course | det |
| 17 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 return | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 course | nmod |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 two | cc |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 day | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the Future Buddha | to Buddha's teacher | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to teacher=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Future Buddha not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | return in a quote | future | the Future Buddha = buddha | the course of a day | 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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