The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 88
Since he himself ruled so righteously, the ministers of justice also transacted their affairs with an eye to righteousness alone.
Who acts: Benāres, ministers · What happens: rule, transact · To what, where: affairs
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 (Benāres, ministers), 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 4 ruled | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ruled | nsubj |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 righteously | advmod |
| 6 | righteously | righteously | ADV | _ | 4 ruled | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ministers | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ministers | det |
| 9 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 transacted | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 justice | case |
| 11 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ministers | nmod |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 transacted | advmod |
| 13 | transacted | transact | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ruled | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 15 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 transacted | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 eye | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 eye | det |
| 18 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 transacted | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 righteousness | case |
| 20 | righteousness | righteousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 transacted | obl |
| 21 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 20 righteousness | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | Benāres | righteously property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | transact | past | the ministers of justice | ministers's affairs | with a eye; to righteousness | tree rules |
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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