The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 76
On a certain occasion king Pasenadi Kosala, after deciding litigations in the Hall of Justice, came hastily to pay his respects to the Teacher.
What happens: decide, come, pay · To what, where: respects
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 king | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 king | amod |
| 4 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | compound |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 6 | Pasenadi | Pasenadi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 king | appos |
| 7 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Pasenadi | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 litigations | punct |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 litigations | case |
| 10 | deciding | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 litigations | amod |
| 11 | litigations | litigation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 king | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Hall | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Hall | det |
| 14 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 litigations | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Justice | case |
| 16 | Justice | Justice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Hall | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 king | punct |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 pay | mark |
| 21 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 came | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 respects | nmod:poss |
| 23 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pay | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Teacher | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Teacher | det |
| 26 | Teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pay | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | gerund | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | on a certain occasion king and deciding litigations in the Hall of Justice; hastily property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on king=Location | |||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | Justice's respects | to the Teacher | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=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.
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