The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 71
The gardener went to Benāres, caused the king to be informed that a gardener had arrived, managed to have himself summoned by the king, and entering the palace, made obeisance to the king.
Who acts: gardener, entering · What happens: go, cause, inform, arrive, manage, have · To what, where: Benāres, king, gardener, palace, obeisance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (gardener, entering), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gardener | det |
| 2 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Benāres | case |
| 5 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 caused | punct |
| 7 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caused | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 informed | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 informed | aux:pass |
| 12 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 caused | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 arrived | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 gardener | det |
| 15 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arrived | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 arrived | aux |
| 17 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 informed | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 managed | punct |
| 19 | managed | manage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 arrived | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 managed | xcomp |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 have | xcomp |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 king | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 summoned | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 made | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 made | cc |
| 29 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 made | csubj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 palace | det |
| 31 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 entering | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 entering | punct |
| 33 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 34 | obeisance | obeisance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 made | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 king | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 king | det |
| 37 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 made | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the gardener | Benāres | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to benāres=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | the king | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition king=Patient | |||||
| 3 | inform speech: other | to-infinitive · passive | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | arrive | past · perfect | a gardener | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | manage | participle | a gardener not said here | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | have | to-infinitive | a gardener not said here | gardener | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | summon | participle | gardener not said here | by the king | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | enter | gerund | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | |||||
| 9 | make | past | entering | obeisance | to the king | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset obeisance=Product |
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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