The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 85
With the seventy crores of gold, causing those three animals also to be carried along, he went to the city.
Who acts: seventy crores, king · What happens: cause, carry, go · To what, where: seventy crores, city
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 (seventy crores, king), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 crores | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crores | det |
| 3 | seventy | seventy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 crores | amod |
| 4 | crores | crore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 went | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crores | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 causing | punct |
| 8 | causing | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 crores | acl |
| 9 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 causing | obj |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 animals | nummod |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 those | nmod |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 carried | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 carried | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 carried | aux:pass |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 those | advcl |
| 16 | along | along | ADV | _ | 15 carried | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 crores | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 city | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 city | det |
| 22 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | gerund | the seventy crores of gold not said here | the seventy crores of gold | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition that=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | to-infinitive · passive | the seventy crores of gold not said here | along property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | go | past | king | the city | with the seventy crores of gold | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location |
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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