The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 105
Having remained in this position for a time, and having dispelled his affection, he would unwind his body, bow to the ascetic, and go back again to his own abode.
Who acts: king · What happens: remain, dispel, unwind, go back · To what, where: position, affection, body
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 (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 | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 dispelled | aux |
| 2 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 position | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 position | det |
| 5 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 remained | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 position | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dispelled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dispelled | cc |
| 11 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 dispelled | aux |
| 12 | dispelled | dispel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 unwind | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 affection | nmod:poss |
| 14 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dispelled | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dispelled | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 unwind | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 unwind | aux |
| 18 | unwind | unwind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 body | nmod:poss |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 unwind | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bow | punct |
| 22 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 body | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 ascetic | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 ascetic | det |
| 25 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 unwind | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 go | cc |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 unwind | conj |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 abode | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 abode | nmod:poss |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 abode | amod |
| 34 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 unwind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | participle | this position for a time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in position=Location | |||||
| 2 | dispel | gerund · perfect | king not said here | king's affection | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent affection=Patient | ||||
| 3 | unwind | would | king | king's body and bow | to the ascetic result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent body=Patient to ascetic=Result | |||
| 4 | go back | infinitive | king not said here | again | to king's own abode result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to abode=Result |
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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