The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 6
Employing right means, the Future Buddha removed that wealth to his own home, and during the remainder of the term of life allotted to him gave alms and performed the other works of merit.
Who acts: Future Buddha, merit · What happens: employ, mean, remove, allot, give, perform · To what, where: wealth, own home, term, Buddha, alms, other works
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 (Future Buddha, merit), 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 | Employing | employ | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 means | nsubj |
| 2 | right | right | ADV | _ | 3 means | advmod |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 removed | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Buddha | det |
| 6 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Buddha | compound |
| 7 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 removed | nsubj |
| 8 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | conj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 wealth | mark |
| 10 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 removed | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 home | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 home | amod |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 removed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 gave | cc |
| 17 | during | during | ADP | _ | 19 remainder | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 remainder | det |
| 19 | remainder | remainder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 term | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 term | det |
| 22 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remainder | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 life | case |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 term | nmod |
| 25 | allotted | allot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 term | acl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 allotted | obl |
| 28 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | parataxis |
| 29 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gave | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 performed | cc |
| 31 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 gave | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 works | det |
| 33 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 works | amod |
| 34 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 performed | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 merit | case |
| 36 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 works | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | gerund | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mean | present | right property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | remove | past | the Future Buddha | wealth | Buddha's own home | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme to home=Destination | |||
| 4 | allot | participle | the term of life not said here | Buddha | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to he=Goal | ||||
| 5 | give | past | alms | during the remainder of the term of life | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Theme | ||||
| 6 | perform | past | the other works of merit | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | |||||
| 7 | term | life | nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | work | merit | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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