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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 49

He went and passed the night in the king’s garden, and on the following day, having put on beautiful garments, entered the city on his round for alms.

Who acts: Buddha · What happens: go, pass, follow, put, enter · To what, where: garden, following day, beautiful garments, city, round

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), 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

nsubjccconjdetobl:unmarkedcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctcccasedetamodoblpunctauxaclcaseamodoblpunctconjdetobjcasenmod:possoblcaseoblpunctrootHePRONwentVERBandCCONJpassedVERBtheDETnightNOUNinADPtheDETkingNOUN’sPARTgardenNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJonADPtheDETfollowingVERBdayNOUN,PUNCThavingAUXputVERBonADPbeautifulADJgarmentsNOUN,PUNCTenteredVERBtheDETcityNOUNonADPhisPRONroundNOUNforADPalmsNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 wentnsubj
2wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3andandCCONJ_4 passedcc
4passedpassVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 wentconj
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 nightdet
6nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing4 passedobl:unmarked
7ininADP_11 gardencase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 kingdet
9kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing11 gardennmod:poss
10’s'sPART_9 kingcase
11gardengardenNOUNNumber=Sing4 passedobl
12,,PUNCT_25 enteredpunct
13andandCCONJ_25 enteredcc
14ononADP_17 daycase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 daydet
16followingfollowVERBVerbForm=Ger17 dayamod
17daydayNOUNNumber=Sing25 enteredobl
18,,PUNCT_20 putpunct
19havinghaveAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part20 putaux
20putputVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass17 dayacl
21ononADP_23 garmentscase
22beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos23 garmentsamod
23garmentsgarmentNOUNNumber=Plur20 putobl
24,,PUNCT_17 daypunct
25enteredenterVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 wentconj
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 citydet
27citycityNOUNNumber=Sing25 enteredobj
28ononADP_30 roundcase
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 roundnmod:poss
30roundroundNOUNNumber=Sing25 enteredobl
31forforADP_32 almscase
32almsalmNOUNNumber=Plur25 enteredobl
33..PUNCT_2 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopastBuddhavn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2passpastBuddha not said herethe king's gardennightvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in garden=Location
3followgerundvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4putgerund · perfectthe following day not said herebeautiful garmentsvn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on garment=Destination
5enterpastBuddha not said herethe cityBuddha's rounddayfor almsvn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=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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