The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 130

Now that man went to Benāres, and in the course of his walks came to the street of the ivory-carvers.

Who acts: man · What happens: go, come, walk · To what, where: Benāres, course

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 (man), 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 went	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Benāres	case
6	Benāres	Benāres	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 course	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 course	det
11	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 walks	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 walks	nmod:poss
14	walks	walk	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 course	nmod
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 street	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 street	det
18	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 carvers	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 carvers	det
21	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carvers	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 ivory	punct
23	carvers	carver	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 street	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	that man	Benāres	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to benāres=Initial_Location
2	come	past	that man not said here	the course of man's walks		to the street of the ivory carvers	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to street=Initial_Location
3	walk		man				nom walk «act transitive»: poss=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 130

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 130