The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 106
Now when he reached the age of reason, elephants from all over Himavat assembled and formed his retinue.
Who acts: Buddha, Himavat · What happens: reach, assemble, form · To what, where: age, elephants, retinue
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buddha, Himavat), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 reached | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 age | det |
| 6 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 reason | case |
| 8 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 age | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 elephants | punct |
| 10 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reason | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 assembled | case |
| 12 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 assembled | advmod |
| 13 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 15 assembled | mark |
| 14 | Himavat | Himavat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 assembled | nsubj |
| 15 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 elephants | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 formed | cc |
| 17 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 assembled | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 retinue | nmod:poss |
| 19 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 formed | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Buddha | the age of reason and elephants | now | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent age=Theme | |||
| 2 | assemble | past | Himavat | elephants not said here | all property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme | |||
| 3 | form | past | Himavat not said here | Buddha's retinue | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location retinue=Theme |
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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