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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 104

So turning over the kingdom to his ministers, he mounted his chariot, departed from the city in disguise, accompanied only by his charioteer, and went as far as the frontier testing the countryside.

Who acts: place, city, frontier · What happens: turn, mount, depart, accompany, go, test · To what, where: kingdom, chariot, city, charioteer, countryside

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, city, frontier), 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

advmodadvclcasedetoblcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjnmod:possobjpunctaclcasedetoblcasenmodpunctacl:relcladvmodcasenmod:possobjpunctccconjadvmodadvmodcasedetoblacldetobjpunctrootSoADVturningVERBoverADPtheDETkingdomNOUNtoADPhisPRONministersNOUN,PUNCThePRONmountedVERBhisPRONchariotNOUN,PUNCTdepartedVERBfromADPtheDETcityNOUNinADPdisguiseNOUN,PUNCTaccompaniedVERBonlyADVbyADPhisPRONcharioteerNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwentVERBasADVfarADVasADPtheDETfrontierNOUNtestingVERBtheDETcountrysideNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_2 turningadvmod
2turningturnVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 mountedadvcl
3overoverADP_5 kingdomcase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 kingdomdet
5kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing2 turningobl
6totoADP_8 ministerscase
7hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 ministersnmod:poss
8ministersministerNOUNNumber=Plur2 turningobl
9,,PUNCT_2 turningpunct
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 mountednsubj
11mountedmountVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 chariotnmod:poss
13chariotchariotNOUNNumber=Sing11 mountedobj
14,,PUNCT_15 departedpunct
15departeddepartVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass13 chariotacl
16fromfromADP_18 citycase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 citydet
18citycityNOUNNumber=Sing15 departedobl
19ininADP_20 disguisecase
20disguisedisguiseNOUNNumber=Sing18 citynmod
21,,PUNCT_22 accompaniedpunct
22accompaniedaccompanyVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass18 cityacl:relcl
23onlyonlyADV_26 charioteeradvmod
24bybyADP_26 charioteercase
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 charioteernmod:poss
26charioteercharioteerNOUNNumber=Sing22 accompaniedobj
27,,PUNCT_29 wentpunct
28andandCCONJ_29 wentcc
29wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 mountedconj
30asasADV_31 faradvmod
31farfarADVDegree=Pos29 wentadvmod
32asasADP_34 frontiercase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 frontierdet
34frontierfrontierNOUNNumber=Sing29 wentobl
35testingtestVERBVerbForm=Ger34 frontieracl
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 countrysidedet
37countrysidecountrysideNOUNNumber=Sing35 testingobj
38..PUNCT_11 mountedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1turngerundplace not said herethe kingdomto place's ministersvn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over kingdom=Source to minister=Trajectory
2mountpastplaceplace's chariotvn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Patient
3departparticipleplace's chariot not said herethe city in disguisevn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from city=Initial_Location
4accompanyparticiplethe city in disguise not said hereplace's charioteervn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charioteer=Theme
5gopastplace not said hereas the frontier; far propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6testgerundthe frontier not said herethe countrysidevn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countryside=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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