The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 118
He came to the conclusion: “This is the way: I will find out the ages of the two kings and cause the chariot of the younger to turn out and make room for the chariot of the older.”
Who acts: king, This, charioteer · What happens: come, be, find out, cause, turn out, make · To what, where: way, ages, chariot, room · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, This, charioteer), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 conclusion | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 conclusion | det |
| 5 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 way | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 way | punct |
| 8 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 way | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 way | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | parataxis |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 way | acl:relcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 find | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ages | det |
| 18 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 find | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kings | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kings | det |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 kings | nummod |
| 22 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ages | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cause | cc |
| 24 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 find | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 chariot | det |
| 26 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cause | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 younger | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 younger | det |
| 29 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 chariot | amod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 turn | mark |
| 31 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 younger | csubj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 turn | compound:prt |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 make | cc |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 turn | conj |
| 35 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 make | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 chariot | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 chariot | det |
| 38 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 room | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 older | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 older | det |
| 41 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 chariot | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 find | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | king | to the conclusion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | This | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find out in a quote | future | the charioteer of the King of Benāres = charioteer | the ages of the two kings | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Topic | ||||
| 4 | cause in a quote | infinitive | the charioteer of the King of Benāres = charioteer not said here | the chariot | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition chariot=Patient | ||||
| 5 | turn out in a quote | to-infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | make in a quote | present | room | for the chariot of the older | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent room=Product for chariot=Asset |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/118/