The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 3
And seeing her, he rose from his seat, adjusted his upper robe so as to cover one shoulder only, and bending his joined hands in reverent salutation before the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala, thrice breathed forth the utterance: “All hail!
Who acts: Brahman, Dīghīti king · What happens: see, rise, adjust, cover, bend, join · To what, where: consort, hail, seat, upper robe, one shoulder, joined hands
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 (Brahman, 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 | _ | 6 rose | cc |
| 2 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 rose | advcl |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seeing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 seeing | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 seat | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 seat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 adjusted | punct |
| 11 | adjusted | adjust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 robe | nmod:poss |
| 13 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 robe | amod |
| 14 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 adjusted | obj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 cover | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 cover | mark |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 cover | mark |
| 18 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 adjusted | advcl |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 shoulder | nummod |
| 20 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cover | obj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 cover | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bending | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bending | cc |
| 24 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 rose | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hands | nmod:poss |
| 26 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 hands | amod |
| 27 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 bending | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 salutation | case |
| 29 | reverent | reverent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 salutation | amod |
| 30 | salutation | salutation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bending | obl |
| 31 | before | before | ADP | _ | 33 consort | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 consort | det |
| 33 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bending | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 king | case |
| 35 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 king | compound |
| 36 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 consort | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Kosala | case |
| 38 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 king | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 breathed | punct |
| 40 | thrice | thrice | ADV | _ | 41 breathed | advmod |
| 41 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 king | acl:relcl |
| 42 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 41 breathed | advmod |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 utterance | det |
| 44 | utterance | utterance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 breathed | obj |
| 45 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 48 hail | punct |
| 46 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 hail | punct |
| 47 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 hail | det |
| 48 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl |
| 49 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Brahman not said here | consort | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rise | past | Brahman | all hail | Brahman's seat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from seat=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | adjust | past | Brahman not said here | Brahman's upper robe | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cover | to-infinitive | Brahman not said here | one shoulder | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shoulder=Destination | ||||
| 5 | bend | gerund | Brahman not said here | Brahman's joined hands | reverent salutation | before the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in salutation=Location | ||
| 6 | join | participle | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 7 | breathe | participle | Dīghīti king of Kosala not said here | the utterance | forth, thrice property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent utterance=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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