The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 147
One day a wealthy merchant, accompanied by five hundred disciples of heretical teachers, went to Jetavana monastery, saluted the Exalted One, presented offerings, and sat down.
Who acts: wealthy merchant · What happens: accompany, go, salute, exalt, present, sit down · To what, where: wealthy merchant, Jetavana monastery, Exalted One presented offerings
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wealthy merchant), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 4 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 merchant | amod |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 accompanied | punct |
| 7 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 merchant | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 disciples | case |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hundred | compound |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 disciples | nummod |
| 11 | disciples | disciple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 accompanied | obl:agent |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 teachers | case |
| 13 | heretical | heretical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 teachers | amod |
| 14 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 disciples | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 monastery | case |
| 18 | Jetavana | Jetavana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 monastery | compound |
| 19 | monastery | monastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saluted | punct |
| 21 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 offerings | det |
| 23 | Exalted | exalt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 offerings | amod |
| 24 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 offerings | nummod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 presented | punct |
| 26 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 offerings | amod |
| 27 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 saluted | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sat | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 sat | cc |
| 30 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 went | conj |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 sat | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | participle | a wealthy merchant not said here | hundred disciples of heretical teachers obl:agent | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | a wealthy merchant | Jetavana monastery | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to monastery=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | salute | past | a wealthy merchant not said here | the Exalted One presented offerings | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offering=Topic | ||||
| 4 | exalt | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | present | participle | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | sit down | past | a wealthy merchant not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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