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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 44

The story goes that once upon a time the Teacher went from Sāvatthi to the kingdom of Magadha, and journeying about from place to place in that kingdom, arrived at a certain little village.

Who acts: story, Teacher · What happens: go, journey, arrive · To what, where: Sāvatthi, place, kingdom, 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, Teacher), 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

detnsubjmarkadvmodcasedetobldetnsubjadvclcaseoblcasedetoblcasenmodpunctccadvcladvmodcaseobjcasenmodcasedetoblpunctconjcasedetamodamodoblpunctrootTheDETstoryNOUNgoesVERBthatSCONJonceADVuponADPaDETtimeNOUNtheDETTeacherPROPNwentVERBfromADPSāvatthiPROPNtoADPtheDETkingdomNOUNofADPMagadhaPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJjourneyingVERBaboutADVfromADPplaceNOUNtoADPplaceNOUNinADPthatDETkingdomNOUN,PUNCTarrivedVERBatADPaDETcertainADJlittleADJvillageNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 storydet
2storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing3 goesnsubj
3goesgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thatthatSCONJ_11 wentmark
5onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult11 wentadvmod
6uponuponADP_8 timecase
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 timedet
8timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing5 onceobl
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Teacherdet
10TeacherTeacherPROPNNumber=Sing11 wentnsubj
11wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 goesadvcl
12fromfromADP_13 Sāvatthicase
13SāvatthiSāvatthiPROPNNumber=Sing11 wentobl
14totoADP_16 kingdomcase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 kingdomdet
16kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing11 wentobl
17ofofADP_18 Magadhacase
18MagadhaMagadhaPROPNNumber=Sing16 kingdomnmod
19,,PUNCT_21 journeyingpunct
20andandCCONJ_21 journeyingcc
21journeyingjourneyVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 wentadvcl
22aboutaboutADV_24 placeadvmod
23fromfromADP_24 placecase
24placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing21 journeyingobj
25totoADP_26 placecase
26placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing24 placenmod
27ininADP_29 kingdomcase
28thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem29 kingdomdet
29kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing21 journeyingobl
30,,PUNCT_31 arrivedpunct
31arrivedarriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 wentconj
32atatADP_36 villagecase
33aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art36 villagedet
34certaincertainADJDegree=Pos36 villageamod
35littlelittleADJDegree=Pos36 villageamod
36villagevillageNOUNNumber=Sing31 arrivedobl
37..PUNCT_3 goespunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopresentthe storyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2gopastthe TeacherSāvatthito the kingdom of Magadha; once propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from sāvatthi=Initial_Location to kingdom=Destination
3journeygerundthe Teacher not said hereplacethat kingdomto placevn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Trajectory
4arrivepastthe Teacher not said herea certain little villagevn 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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