The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 51
Having become king under the name King of the Curds, he ruled with righteousness.
Who acts: king · What happens: have, become, rule · To what, where: become king, name
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 (king), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 ruled | advcl |
| 2 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 6 name | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obl |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 name | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Curds | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Curds | det |
| 10 | Curds | Curd | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 King | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ruled | nsubj |
| 13 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 righteousness | case |
| 15 | righteousness | righteousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ruled | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | king not said here | become king | the name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient | |||
| 2 | become | participle | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | rule | past | king | with righteousness | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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