The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 96
He broke down the stockade, seized the king of Kosala by the top-knot, and carried him and laid him at the Future Buddha’s feet.
Who acts: Elephant · What happens: break down, seize, carry, lay · To what, where: stockade, king, Elephant, 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 (Elephant), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 broke | nsubj |
| 2 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 broke | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stockade | det |
| 5 | stockade | stockade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 broke | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seized | punct |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 broke | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Kosala | case |
| 11 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 king | nmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 knot | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 knot | det |
| 14 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 knot | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 top | punct |
| 16 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carried | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 carried | cc |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 broke | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carried | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 laid | cc |
| 22 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 carried | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 laid | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 feet | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Buddha | det |
| 26 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Buddha | compound |
| 27 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 feet | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Buddha | case |
| 29 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 laid | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break down | past | Elephant | the stockade | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stockade=Patient | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | Elephant not said here | the king of Kosala | by the top knot | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry | past | Elephant | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lay | past | Elephant | the Future Buddha's feet | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=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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