The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 91
Every day ministers of justice took their seats in the place of litigation, but seeing no one come for litigation, departed.
Who acts: day ministers, seeing · What happens: take, see, come, depart · To what, where: seats, place, one
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 (day ministers, seeing), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ministers | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ministers | compound |
| 3 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 justice | case |
| 5 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ministers | nmod |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 seats | nmod:poss |
| 8 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 litigation | case |
| 13 | litigation | litigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 place | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 come | cc |
| 16 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 come | csubj |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 seeing | obj |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 took | parataxis |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 litigation | case |
| 21 | litigation | litigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 departed | punct |
| 23 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 come | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | every day ministers of justice | ministers's seats | the place of litigation | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent seat=Value in place=Location | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | seeing | for litigation | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | depart | participle | seeing not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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