The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 50
Accompanied by a mighty force, the man entered the city and caused himself to be sprinkled king.
Who acts: man · What happens: accompany, enter, cause, sprinkle · To what, where: city, man, king
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 (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 | Accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 force | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 force | det |
| 4 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 force | amod |
| 5 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Accompanied | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 entered | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Accompanied | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 caused | cc |
| 13 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 entered | conj |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 caused | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sprinkled | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sprinkled | aux:pass |
| 17 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 caused | advcl |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sprinkled | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | participle | by a mighty force | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by force=Destination | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | the man | the city | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cause | past | the man not said here | man | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sprinkle | to-infinitive · passive | the man not said here | king | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: king=Destination |
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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