The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 153
Now the Exalted One departed from Sāvatthi and went back again to Rājagaha.
What happens: exalt, depart, go back · To what, where: One, Sāvatthi, Rājagaha
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: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 Exalted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Exalted | det |
| 3 | Exalted | exalt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Exalted | obj |
| 5 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 One | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Sāvatthi | case |
| 7 | Sāvatthi | Sāvatthi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 departed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Exalted | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Rājagaha | case |
| 13 | Rājagaha | Rājagaha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Exalted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exalt | participle | One | now | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | depart | participle | Sāvatthi | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sāvatthi=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | go back | past | Rājagaha | again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to rājagaha=Result |
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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