The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 143
As for King Mallika, he accepted the admonition of the king of Benāres, tested the countryside, met with no one who said he had a fault, and went to his own city.
Who acts: king, one · What happens: accept, test, meet, say, have, go · To what, where: admonition, countryside, fault, own city, king · 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, one), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 Mallika | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mallika | compound |
| 4 | Mallika | Mallika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 accepted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mallika | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 accepted | nsubj |
| 7 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 admonition | det |
| 9 | admonition | admonition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 accepted | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 admonition | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Benāres | case |
| 14 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 king | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tested | punct |
| 16 | tested | test | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 accepted | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 countryside | det |
| 18 | countryside | countryside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tested | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 met | punct |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 countryside | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 met | obl |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 said | nsubj |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 one | acl:relcl |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 had | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | ccomp |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 fault | det |
| 29 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 had | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 went | cc |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 accepted | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 city | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 city | nmod:poss |
| 35 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 city | amod |
| 36 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accept | past | king | the admonition of the king of Benāres | as King Mallika | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent admonition=Theme as mallika=Attribute | |||
| 2 | test | past | king not said here | the countryside | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countryside=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | participle | the countryside not said here | with no one | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with one=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | no one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have | past | king | a fault | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go | past | king not said here | king's own city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | admonish | the king of Benāres | nom admonition «communication 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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