The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 12
Thus the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala obtained her desire to see at sunrise a fourfold army drawn up, clad in armor, standing in a pleasant place, and to drink the rinsings of swords.
Who acts: consort · What happens: obtain, see, draw up, clad, stand, drink · To what, where: desire, fourfold army, armor, pleasant place, rinsings, swords
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (consort), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 9 obtained | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 consort | det |
| 3 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obtained | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | compound |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consort | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Kosala | case |
| 8 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 9 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 desire | nmod:poss |
| 11 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obtained | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 obtained | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 sunrise | case |
| 15 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 army | det |
| 17 | fourfold | fourfold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 army | amod |
| 18 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sunrise | appos |
| 19 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 army | acl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 drawn | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 clad | punct |
| 22 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 army | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 armor | case |
| 24 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 clad | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 standing | punct |
| 26 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 clad | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 place | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 place | det |
| 29 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 place | amod |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 standing | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 drink | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 drink | cc |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 drink | mark |
| 34 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 obtained | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rinsings | det |
| 36 | rinsings | rinsing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 drink | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 swords | case |
| 38 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 rinsings | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 obtained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | past | the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala | consort's desire | thus property | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset desire=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala not said here | sunrise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | draw up | participle | a fourfold army not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | clad | participle | the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala not said here | armor | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala not said here | a pleasant place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 6 | drink | to-infinitive | the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala not said here | the rinsings of swords | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rinsing=Patient | ||||
| 7 | desire | consort | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | rinse | swords | nom rinsing «act transitive»: of=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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