The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 5

Then said the Future Buddha: “Just as our teacher, putting forth effort by wrong means, at the wrong time, caused the Rain of Riches, and thus himself met destruction and became the cause of others’ ruin, precisely so whoever else besides shall exert himself, seeking advantage for himself by wrong means, shall himself come to ruin and shall become the cause of others’ ruin.”

Who acts: putting, wrong time, Buddha, whoever, wrong, others · What happens: say, put, mean, cause, meet, become · To what, where: Future Buddha, effort, Rain, destruction, cause, Buddha · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (putting, wrong time, Buddha, whoever), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 said	advmod
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Buddha	det
4	Future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Buddha	amod
5	Buddha	buddha	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 teacher	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 teacher	punct
8	Just	just	ADV	_	11 teacher	advmod
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 teacher	case
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 teacher	nmod:poss
11	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 putting	punct
13	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 means	csubj
14	forth	forth	ADV	_	13 putting	advmod
15	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 putting	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 wrong	case
17	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 putting	obl
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 time	punct
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 time	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 time	det
22	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 means	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 caused	punct
25	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 time	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Rain	det
27	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 caused	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Riches	case
29	Riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Rain	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 met	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 met	cc
32	thus	thus	ADV	_	34 met	advmod
33	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 met	nsubj
34	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
35	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 met	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 became	cc
37	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 met	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cause	det
39	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 became	xcomp
40	of	of	ADP	_	43 ruin	case
41	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 ruin	nmod:poss
42	’	's	PART	_	41 others	case
43	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cause	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 exert	punct
45	precisely	precisely	ADV	_	49 besides	advmod
46	so	so	SCONJ	_	49 besides	mark
47	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 besides	nsubj
48	else	else	ADV	_	47 whoever	advmod
49	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 exert	advcl
50	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 exert	aux
51	exert	exert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
52	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	51 exert	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 seeking	punct
54	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	60 means	csubj
55	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 seeking	obj
56	for	for	ADP	_	57 himself	case
57	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	54 seeking	obl
58	by	by	ADP	_	59 wrong	case
59	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 means	nsubj
60	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 exert	parataxis
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 come	punct
62	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 come	aux
63	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	64 come	nsubj
64	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 means	ccomp
65	to	to	PART	_	66 ruin	mark
66	ruin	ruin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 come	xcomp
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 become	cc
68	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 become	aux
69	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 ruin	conj
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 cause	det
71	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 become	xcomp
72	of	of	ADP	_	75 ruin	case
73	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	75 ruin	nmod:poss
74	’	's	PART	_	73 others	case
75	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 cause	nmod
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 exert	punct
77	”	"	PUNCT	_	51 exert	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the Future Buddha	then	as our teacher	tree rules
2	put in a quote	gerund		effort		by wrong; forth property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent effort=Theme by wrong=Destination
3	mean in a quote	present	putting				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	cause in a quote	past	the wrong time not said here	the Rain of Riches			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rain=Patient
5	meet in a quote	past	Buddha	destruction		thus property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Co-Agent
6	become in a quote	past	Buddha not said here	the cause of others's ruin			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
7	beside in a quote	present	whoever			precisely property	tree rules
8	exert in a quote	shall		Buddha			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
9	seek in a quote	gerund		advantage		for Buddha	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent advantage=Location for himself=Theme
10	mean in a quote	present	wrong				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	come in a quote	shall	Buddha				tree rules
12	ruin in a quote	to-infinitive	Buddha not said here				vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
13	become in a quote	shall	Buddha not said here	the cause of others's ruin			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
14	rain in a quote			Riches			nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient
15	cause in a quote			others's ruin			nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
16	ruin in a quote		others				nom ruin «state transitive»: poss=agent
17	cause in a quote			others's ruin			nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient
18	ruin in a quote		others				nom ruin «state transitive»: poss=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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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 5