The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 94
Then the ministers clad him with armor and adorned him, and unlocking the city-gate, went out in his train.
Who acts: ministers · What happens: clad, adorn, unlock, go out · To what, where: Elephant, city gate, train
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 (ministers), 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 | 4 clad | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ministers | det |
| 3 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 clad | nsubj |
| 4 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 clad | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 armor | case |
| 7 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clad | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 adorned | cc |
| 9 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 clad | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 adorned | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 13 | unlocking | unlock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 went | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gate | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gate | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 city | punct |
| 17 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 unlocking | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 unlocking | punct |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 clad | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 train | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 train | nmod:poss |
| 23 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 clad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clad | past | the ministers | Elephant | then | with armor | tree rules | ||
| 2 | adorn | past | the ministers not said here | Elephant | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | unlock | gerund | the city gate | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient | |||||
| 4 | go out | past | the ministers not said here | Elephant's train | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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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