The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 59
At that time, in the kingdom of Kāsi, in a certain frontier village, dwelt many carpenters.
What happens: dwell · To what, where: many carpenters
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dwelt | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 kingdom | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 kingdom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kingdom | det |
| 7 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Kāsi | case |
| 9 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 kingdom | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 village | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 village | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 village | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 village | amod |
| 14 | frontier | frontier | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 village | amod |
| 15 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 17 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 carpenters | amod |
| 19 | carpenters | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dwelt | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | many carpenters | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme carpenter=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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