The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 123

And going to the place where he would be, he sold his goods for twice or thrice the price, and together with his entire company went back again to his own city.

Who acts: particle · What happens: go, sell, go back · To what, where: place, goods

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (particle), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 sold	cc
2	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 sold	advcl
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 place	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 going	obl
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 be	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 be	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 be	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 place	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 going	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sold	nsubj
12	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 goods	nmod:poss
14	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 sold	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 twice	case
16	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 sold	obl
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 price	cc
18	thrice	thrice	ADP	_	20 price	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 price	det
20	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 twice	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
23	together	together	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 company	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 company	nmod:poss
26	entire	entire	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 company	amod
27	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sold	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
30	again	again	ADV	_	28 went	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 city	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 city	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 city	amod
34	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	particle not said here		the place			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	sell	past	particle	particle's goods				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent goods=Theme for twice=Asset
3	go back	past	particle not said here			again	with particle's entire company; to particle's own city result; together property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to city=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 123

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 123