The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 8
The story goes that the Teacher, after keeping residence for the period of the rains, departed from Jetavana and journeyed from place to place in the South Mountain region.
Who acts: story · What happens: go, keep, depart, journey · To what, where: residence, Jetavana, place
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 (story), 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 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 Teacher | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Teacher | det |
| 6 | Teacher | Teacher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 keeping | punct |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 keeping | mark |
| 9 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 goes | parataxis |
| 10 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keeping | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 period | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 period | det |
| 13 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keeping | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rains | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rains | det |
| 16 | rains | rain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 period | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 departed | punct |
| 18 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 keeping | parataxis |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Jetavana | case |
| 20 | Jetavana | Jetavana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 departed | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 journeyed | cc |
| 22 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 departed | conj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 journeyed | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | nmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 region | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 region | det |
| 29 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Mountain | compound |
| 30 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 region | compound |
| 31 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 place | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | the story | the Teacher advcl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | residence | for the period of the rains | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent residence=Theme | ||||
| 3 | depart | participle | Jetavana | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from jetavana=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | journey | past | place to place in the Mountain region | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from place=Trajectory |
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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