The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 114
The story goes that the Teacher, while journeying from place to place in the country of the Kosalas, arrived at a certain little village.
Who acts: story · What happens: go, journey, arrive · To what, where: place, certain little village
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 Teacher | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Teacher | det |
| 6 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 journeying | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 journeying | mark |
| 9 | journeying | journey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 goes | advcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 journeying | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 journeying | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 country | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 country | det |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Kosalas | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Kosalas | det |
| 19 | Kosalas | Kosalas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 country | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 arrived | punct |
| 21 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 goes | parataxis |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 village | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 village | det |
| 24 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 village | amod |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 village | amod |
| 26 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arrived | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the story | the Teacher advcl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | journey | gerund | the story not said here | place | to place in the country of the Kosalas | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 3 | arrive | past | a certain little village | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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