The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 100
And when they had made their alms-pilgrimage in Sāvatthi, they returned from their pilgrimage.
Who acts: others · What happens: make, return · To what, where: alms pilgrimage, Sāvatthi, pilgrimage
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 made | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 made | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 made | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pilgrimage | nmod:poss |
| 7 | alms | alms | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pilgrimage | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 alms | punct |
| 9 | pilgrimage | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 Sāvatthi | case |
| 11 | Sāvatthi | Sāvatthi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 pilgrimage | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 returned | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 returned | nsubj |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 pilgrimage | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pilgrimage | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pilgrimage | pilgrimage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect | others = other | others's alms pilgrimage | Sāvatthi | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pilgrimage=Product | |||
| 2 | return | past | others = other | others's pilgrimage | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from pilgrimage=Initial_Location |
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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