The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 160
And Dīghīti king of Kosala with his consort set out for Benāres, and in due course arrived at Benāres.
Who acts: Dīghīti king · What happens: set out, arrive · To what, where: due course
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 set | cc |
| 2 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kosala | case |
| 5 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 consort | case |
| 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 | 3 king | nmod |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Benāres | case |
| 12 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 arrived | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 arrived | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 course | case |
| 16 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 course | amod |
| 17 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arrived | obl |
| 18 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | conj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 Benāres | case |
| 20 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 arrived | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Dīghīti king of Kosala with King's consort | for Benāres | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | Dīghīti king of Kosala with King's consort not said here | due course | at Benāres | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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