The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 78
The king entrusted to his ministers wealth amounting to forty crores of gold.
Who acts: ministers wealth · What happens: entrust, amount · To what, where: king, ministers wealth
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 (ministers wealth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 wealth | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wealth | compound |
| 7 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entrusted | obl |
| 8 | amounting | amount | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 wealth | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 crores | case |
| 10 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 crores | nummod |
| 11 | crores | crore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 amounting | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 gold | case |
| 13 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crores | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entrust | participle | the king not said here | king's ministers wealth | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to wealth=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | amount | gerund | king's ministers wealth not said here | to forty crores of gold | vn register-54.1-1 «NP V PP.value»: agent=Theme to crore=Value |
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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