The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 158
Accordingly Dīghīti king of Kosala took his consort, merely countermarched, and slipped out of the city.
Who acts: Dīghīti king · What happens: take, countermarch, slip out · To what, where: consort, city
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dīghīti 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 2 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kosala | case |
| 5 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 consort | nmod:poss |
| 8 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 countermarched | punct |
| 10 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 11 countermarched | advmod |
| 11 | countermarched | countermarch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 took | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 slipped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 slipped | cc |
| 14 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 city | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 city | det |
| 18 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slipped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Dīghīti king of Kosala | King's consort | accordingly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consort=Theme | |||
| 2 | countermarch | participle | Dīghīti king of Kosala not said here | merely property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | slip out | past | Dīghīti king of Kosala not said here | the city | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent city=Patient |
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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