The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 102
And having approached, they saluted the Exalted One and sat down on one side.
Who acts: others · What happens: approach, salute, exalt, sit down · To what, where: Exalted One, one side
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 | _ | 3 approached | cc |
| 2 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 approached | aux |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 saluted | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 approached | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saluted | nsubj |
| 6 | saluted | salute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 One | det |
| 8 | Exalted | exalt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 One | amod |
| 9 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 saluted | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sat | cc |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 One | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 sat | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 side | nummod |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saluted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | gerund · perfect | others = other not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | salute | past | others = other | the Exalted One | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 3 | exalt | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | sit down | past | others = other not said here | one side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=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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