The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 50

At that moment that king, that betrayer of friends, seated on the back of his gloriously adorned state elephant, accompanied by a large retinue, was making a rightwise circuit of the city.

What happens: seat, adorn, accompany, make · To what, where: friends, back, king, rightwise circuit

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: 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 making	obl
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moment	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 betrayer	punct
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 betrayer	det
8	betrayer	betrayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 friends	case
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 betrayer	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seated	punct
12	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 friends	acl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 back	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 back	det
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seated	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 elephant	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 elephant	nmod:poss
18	gloriously	gloriously	ADV	_	19 adorned	advmod
19	adorned	adorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 elephant	amod
20	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 elephant	compound
21	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 back	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 accompanied	punct
23	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 king	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 retinue	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 retinue	det
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 retinue	amod
27	retinue	retinue	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 accompanied	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 moment	punct
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 making	aux
30	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 circuit	det
32	rightwise	rightwise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 circuit	amod
33	circuit	circuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 making	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 city	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 city	det
36	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 circuit	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 making	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seat	participle	friends not said here	the back of king's adorned state elephant			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
2	adorn	participle				gloriously property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	accompany	participle	that king and that betrayer of friends not said here			by a large retinue	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by retinue=Destination
4	make	past · progressive	a rightwise circuit of the city		moment		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circuit=Product

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 50

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 50