The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 103
Relying on Noble-heart, a mighty host, delighted, Captured Kosala alive, dissatisfied with his army.
What happens: rely, capture · To what, where: mighty host
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. 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 | Relying | rely | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 host | csubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 heart | case |
| 3 | Noble | Noble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Noble | punct |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Relying | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Relying | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 host | det |
| 8 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 host | amod |
| 9 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 delighted | punct |
| 11 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 host | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Captured | punct |
| 13 | Captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 host | acl:relcl |
| 14 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Captured | xcomp |
| 15 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Kosala | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dissatisfied | punct |
| 17 | dissatisfied | dissatisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 host | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 army | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 army | nmod:poss |
| 20 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dissatisfied | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 host | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rely | gerund | on Noble heart | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on heart=Theme | |||||
| 2 | capture | participle | a mighty host not said here | Kosala xcomp | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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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