The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 121
He then made inquiry regarding the extent of his kingdom, his army, his wealth, his reputation, and his position in respect of caste, race, and family.
Who acts: king · What happens: make, regard, extend, repute, respect · To what, where: inquiry, kingdom, caste
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), 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 | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 made | advmod |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | inquiry | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 extent | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 extent | det |
| 7 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 extent | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 army | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 army | nmod:poss |
| 13 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 extent | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wealth | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 extent | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reputation | punct |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 reputation | nmod:poss |
| 19 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 extent | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 position | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 position | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 position | nmod:poss |
| 23 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 respect | case |
| 25 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 position | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 caste | case |
| 27 | caste | caste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 respect | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 race | punct |
| 29 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 position | appos |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 family | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 family | cc |
| 32 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | parataxis |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | king | inquiry | then | regard the extent of king's kingdom and king's army and king's wealth and king's reputation; king's position in respect of caste obl; family parataxis | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inquiry=Product | ||
| 2 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | extend | king's kingdom | nom extent «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | repute | king | nom reputation «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | respect | caste | nom respect «cognition 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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