The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 97
The king gave the regular gardener sole charge of the garden, and after living out his allotted term of life, passed away according to his deeds.
Who acts: king · What happens: give, live out, allot, pass away, accord, charge · To what, where: regular gardener sole charge, allotted term, garden, life
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 charge | det |
| 5 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 charge | amod |
| 6 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 charge | compound |
| 7 | sole | sole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 charge | amod |
| 8 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 garden | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garden | det |
| 11 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 charge | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 living | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 living | cc |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 living | mark |
| 15 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gave | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 living | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 term | nmod:poss |
| 18 | allotted | allot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 term | amod |
| 19 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 living | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 life | case |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 term | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 passed | punct |
| 23 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gave | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 passed | advmod |
| 25 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 deeds | case |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 according | fixed |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 28 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 passed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the king | the regular gardener sole charge of the garden | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live out | gerund | the king not said here | king's allotted term of life | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | allot | participle | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | pass away | participle | the king not said here | accord king's deeds; away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | charge | the garden | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | term | king | life | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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