The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 103
And sitting on one side, those monks reported the matter to the Exalted One.
Who acts: monks · What happens: sit, report, exalt · To what, where: one side, matter, One
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 (monks), 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 | _ | 9 reported | cc |
| 2 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 reported | advcl |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 side | nummod |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sitting | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sitting | punct |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 monks | det |
| 8 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reported | nsubj |
| 9 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 matter | det |
| 11 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reported | obj |
| 12 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 14 Exalted | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Exalted | det |
| 14 | Exalted | exalt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 reported | ccomp |
| 15 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 Exalted | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | gerund | that monks not said here | one side | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | report | past | that monks | the matter | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent matter=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | exalt | participle | that monks not said here | One | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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