The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 22

Now that monk, driven away by the noise of that flock of birds, approached me, and having approached, saluted me and sat down on one side.

Who acts: monk, flock · What happens: drive away, approach, salute, sit down, noise · To what, where: monk, me, 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 (monk, flock), 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	16 approached	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 monk	det
3	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 approached	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 driven	punct
5	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 monk	acl
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 driven	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 noise	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 noise	det
9	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 driven	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 flock	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 flock	det
12	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 noise	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 birds	case
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 flock	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 monk	punct
16	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 approached	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 approached	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 approached	cc
20	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 approached	aux
21	approached	approach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 approached	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saluted	punct
23	saluted	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 approached	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 saluted	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sat	cc
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 saluted	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 sat	compound:prt
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 side	case
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 side	nummod
30	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive away	participle		that monk not said here			by the noise of that flock of birds; away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	approach	past	that monk	me		now		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	approach	gerund · perfect	that monk not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	salute	past	that monk not said here	me				vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic
5	sit down	past	that monk not said here		one side			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
6	noise		that flock of birds					nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 22

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 22