The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 90

Accordingly, monks, the partridge prevailed upon the monkey and the elephant to take upon themselves the Five Precepts, and himself also took upon himself the Five Precepts and walked therein.

Who acts: monks, monk · What happens: prevail, take, walk · To what, where: Five Precepts

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monks, monk), 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	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	7 prevailed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Accordingly	punct
3	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 prevailed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 partridge	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 partridge	det
6	partridge	partridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 monks	conj
7	prevailed	prevail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 monkey	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 monkey	det
10	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prevailed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 elephant	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 elephant	det
13	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 monkey	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 take	mark
15	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 prevailed	advcl
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 themselves	case
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 take	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Precepts	det
19	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 Precepts	nummod
20	Precepts	Precept	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 take	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 took	nsubj
24	also	also	ADV	_	25 took	advmod
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 prevailed	parataxis
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 himself	case
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 took	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Precepts	det
29	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 Precepts	nummod
30	Precepts	Precept	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 took	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 walked	cc
32	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 took	conj
33	therein	therein	ADV	_	32 walked	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 prevailed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	prevail	past	monks and the partridge		upon the monkey and the elephant; accordingly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon monkey=Location
2	take	to-infinitive	monks and the partridge not said here	the Five Precepts	upon Partridge	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument precept=Destination
3	take	past	monk	the Five Precepts	upon monk	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument precept=Destination
4	walk	past	monk not said here		therein property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 12, sentence 90

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 90