The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 85
She adorned the boy, laid him in a head-coil of fine cloth, came down from the terrace, and accompanied by a retinue of ministers, went to the elephant-stable, and laid the Future Buddha at the feet of the elephant.
Who acts: queen · What happens: adorn, lay, come down, accompany, go · To what, where: boy, head coil, terrace, elephant stable, Future Buddha, feet
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: who acts (queen), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 adorned | nsubj |
| 2 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 adorned | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 laid | punct |
| 6 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 adorned | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 laid | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 coil | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 coil | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coil | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 head | punct |
| 12 | coil | coil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laid | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 cloth | case |
| 14 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cloth | amod |
| 15 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coil | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 adorned | parataxis |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 terrace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 terrace | det |
| 21 | terrace | terrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 accompanied | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 accompanied | cc |
| 24 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 came | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 retinue | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 retinue | det |
| 27 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 accompanied | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 ministers | case |
| 29 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 retinue | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 stable | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 stable | det |
| 34 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stable | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 elephant | punct |
| 36 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 laid | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 laid | cc |
| 39 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 adorned | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Buddha | det |
| 41 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Buddha | compound |
| 42 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 laid | obj |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 feet | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 feet | det |
| 45 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 laid | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 elephant | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 elephant | det |
| 48 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 feet | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 adorned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adorn | past | queen | the boy | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent boy=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | queen not said here | boy | a head coil of fine cloth | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in coil=Destination | |||
| 3 | come down | past | the terrace | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from terrace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | accompany | participle | by a retinue of ministers | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by retinue=Destination | |||||
| 5 | go | past | the elephant stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stable=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | lay | past | queen not said here | the Future Buddha | the feet of the elephant | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent buddha=Theme at foot=Destination |
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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