The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 101
Now one day a dragon-king named Jewel-neck came forth from the World of Dragons, walked along the bank of the Ganges disguised as a Brahman youth, came to the hermitage of the younger ascetic, bowed, and sat down on one side.
Who acts: dragon king · What happens: name, come, walk, disguise, bow, sit down · To what, where: Jewel neck, World, hermitage, one side
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 came | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 5 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragon | punct |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 8 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 king | acl |
| 9 | Jewel | Jewel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 neck | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Jewel | punct |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 named | obj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 came | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 World | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 World | det |
| 16 | World | World | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Dragons | case |
| 18 | Dragons | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 World | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 walked | punct |
| 20 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 21 | along | along | ADP | _ | 23 bank | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bank | det |
| 23 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 disguised | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Ganges | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Ganges | det |
| 26 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 bank | nmod |
| 27 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 walked | advcl |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 youth | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 youth | det |
| 30 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 youth | compound |
| 31 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 disguised | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 came | punct |
| 33 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 disguised | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 hermitage | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hermitage | det |
| 36 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 came | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 ascetic | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 ascetic | det |
| 39 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 ascetic | amod |
| 40 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hermitage | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 bowed | punct |
| 42 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 came | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 sat | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 sat | cc |
| 45 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 46 | down | down | ADP | _ | 45 sat | compound:prt |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 side | case |
| 48 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 side | nummod |
| 49 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 sat | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | a dragon king not said here | Jewel neck | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a dragon king | the World of Dragons | now; day | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from world=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | walk | past | a dragon king not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | disguise | past | a dragon king not said here | along the bank of the Ganges; as a Brahman youth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | the hermitage of the younger ascetic | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hermitage=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | bow | past | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | sit down | past | a dragon king not said here | one side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
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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