The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 31
Accordingly Prince Dīghāvu entered Benāres, and saw his mother and father, their arms bound tight behind their backs, their heads shaven, being led about, to the loud beating of a drum, from street to street, from crossing to crossing.
Who acts: Dīghāvu · What happens: enter, see, bind, lead, cross, beat · To what, where: Benāres, mother, arms, backs, street, crossing
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 (Dīghāvu), 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 | _ | 4 entered | advmod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Dīghāvu | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entered | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 father | cc |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mother | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 arms | punct |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arms | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mother | conj |
| 16 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 arms | acl |
| 17 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 16 bound | advmod |
| 18 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 20 backs | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 backs | nmod:poss |
| 20 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bound | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 heads | punct |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 heads | nmod:poss |
| 23 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 mother | conj |
| 24 | shaven | shaven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 led | punct |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 led | aux:pass |
| 27 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 saw | parataxis |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 led | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 beating | punct |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 beating | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 beating | det |
| 32 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 beating | amod |
| 33 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 led | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 drum | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 drum | det |
| 36 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 beating | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 street | punct |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 street | case |
| 39 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 led | obl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 street | case |
| 41 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 street | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 crossing | punct |
| 43 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 44 crossing | mark |
| 44 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 led | conj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 crossing | case |
| 46 | crossing | crossing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 crossing | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Dīghāvu Prince | Benāres | accordingly property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme benāres=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | past | Dīghāvu Prince not said here | Dīghāvu's mother and father and mother's arms and mother's heads | shaven property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | bind | participle | mother's arms not said here | mother's backs | tight property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | lead | gerund · passive | street to street | the loud beating of a drum conj; about property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: from street=Destination | ||||
| 5 | cross | gerund | crossing | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to crossing=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | beat | a drum | nom beating «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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