The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 15
Now a certain man who lived in the kingdom of Kāsi, driven from home by his mother and father with the remark, “He’s no good to us,” went to a certain seaport, hired himself out to mariners, and embarked on a ship.
Who acts: certain man · What happens: live, drive, go, hire out, embark · To what, where: kingdom, home, certain seaport, man, ship
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain man), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 man | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 went | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 man | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 kingdom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kingdom | det |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Kāsi | case |
| 11 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kingdom | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 driven | punct |
| 13 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 kingdom | acl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 driven | obl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 mother | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 driven | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 father | cc |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mother | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 remark | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 remark | det |
| 23 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 father | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ’s | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 ’s | punct |
| 26 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 ’s | nsubj |
| 27 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 mother | acl:relcl |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 good | det |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ’s | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 us | case |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 good | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 seaport | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 seaport | det |
| 37 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 seaport | amod |
| 38 | seaport | seaport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 went | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 hired | punct |
| 40 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 went | conj |
| 41 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 40 hired | obj |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 hired | compound:prt |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 mariners | case |
| 44 | mariners | mariner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 hired | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 embarked | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 embarked | cc |
| 47 | embarked | embark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 went | conj |
| 48 | on | on | ADP | _ | 50 ship | case |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 ship | det |
| 50 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 embarked | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a certain man | the kingdom of Kāsi | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kingdom=Location | ||||
| 2 | drive | participle | the kingdom of Kāsi not said here | home | by man's mother and father with the remark | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from home=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | go | past | a certain man | a certain seaport | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seaport=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | hire out | past | a certain man not said here | man | to mariners | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 5 | embark | participle | a certain man not said here | a ship | 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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