The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 93
The merchant had her body attended to, and went to the monastery and reported the whole incident to the Teacher.
Who acts: merchant, body · What happens: have, attend, go, report · To what, where: monastery, whole incident, Teacher
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 (merchant, body), 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 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 body | nmod:poss |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attended | nsubj |
| 6 | attended | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 attended | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 monastery | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 monastery | det |
| 13 | monastery | monastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reported | cc |
| 15 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 incident | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 incident | amod |
| 18 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reported | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Teacher | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Teacher | det |
| 21 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reported | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the merchant | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | attend | past | merchant's body | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | the monastery | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to monastery=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | report | past | the whole incident | the Teacher | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent incident=Topic to teacher=Recipient |
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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