The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 19
In olden times a certain monk dwelt on a slope of Himavat in a certain forest-grove.
What happens: dwell · To what, where: certain monk, slope
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 monk | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 monk | det |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 monk | amod |
| 6 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 monk | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 slope | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 slope | det |
| 10 | slope | slope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dwelt | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Himavat | case |
| 12 | Himavat | Himavat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 slope | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 grove | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 grove | det |
| 15 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grove | amod |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grove | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 forest | punct |
| 18 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dwelt | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 monk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | participle | a certain monk in olden times not said here | a slope of Himavat | in a certain forest grove | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on slope=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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