The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 93

Then he lowered the Future Buddha and laid him in the arms of the queen, and with the words, “I will capture the king of Kosala!” went out of the elephant-stable.

Who acts: Elephant, words · What happens: lower, lay, capture, go out · To what, where: Future Buddha, Elephant, arms, king, elephant stable

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 (Elephant, words), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lowered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lowered	nsubj
3	lowered	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Buddha	det
5	Future	Future	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Buddha	compound
6	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lowered	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 laid	cc
8	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lowered	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laid	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 arms	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 arms	det
12	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 laid	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 queen	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 queen	det
15	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arms	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 words	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 words	det
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 went	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 capture	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 capture	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 capture	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 capture	aux
25	capture	capture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 words	appos
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 capture	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Kosala	case
29	Kosala	Kosala	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 king	nmod
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 capture	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 capture	punct
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lowered	conj
33	out	out	ADP	_	38 stable	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	38 stable	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 stable	det
36	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stable	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 elephant	punct
38	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 went	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lowered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lower	past	Elephant	the Future Buddha		then	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buddha=Theme
2	lay	past	Elephant not said here	Elephant	the arms of the queen		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in arm=Destination
3	capture in a quote	future	the elephant with Elephant's trunk = elephant	the king of Kosala			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme
4	go out	past	the words	the elephant stable			tree rules

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 3, sentence 93

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 93