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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 107

And that king ordered a certain man: “Come, my man, assemble in one place all the men in Sāvatthi who are blind from birth.”

Who acts: king, men · What happens: order, come, assemble, be · To what, where: certain man, one place, birth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (king, men), 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

ccdetnsubjdetamodobjpunctpunctparataxispunctnmod:possvocativepunctconjcasenummodobldet:predetdetnsubjcasenmodnsubjcopacl:relclcaseoblpunctpunctrootAndCCONJthatDETkingNOUNorderedVERBaDETcertainADJmanNOUN:PUNCT“PUNCTComeVERB,PUNCTmyPRONmanNOUN,PUNCTassembleVERBinADPoneNUMplaceNOUNallDETtheDETmenNOUNinADPSāvatthiPROPNwhoPRONareAUXblindADJfromADPbirthNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_4 orderedcc
2thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem3 kingdet
3kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing4 orderednsubj
4orderedorderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 mandet
6certaincertainADJDegree=Pos7 manamod
7manmanNOUNNumber=Sing4 orderedobj
8::PUNCT_10 Comepunct
9“"PUNCT_10 Comepunct
10ComecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf4 orderedparataxis
11,,PUNCT_13 manpunct
12mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 mannmod:poss
13manmanNOUNNumber=Sing10 Comevocative
14,,PUNCT_15 assemblepunct
15assembleassembleVERBVerbForm=Inf10 Comeconj
16ininADP_18 placecase
17oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card18 placenummod
18placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing15 assembleobl
19allallDETPronType=Tot21 mendet:predet
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 mendet
21menmanNOUNNumber=Plur26 blindnsubj
22ininADP_23 Sāvatthicase
23SāvatthiSāvatthiPROPNNumber=Sing21 mennmod
24whowhoPRONPronType=Rel26 blindnsubj
25arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 blindcop
26blindblindADJDegree=Pos18 placeacl:relcl
27fromfromADP_28 birthcase
28birthbirthNOUNNumber=Sing26 blindobl
29..PUNCT_10 Comepunct
30”"PUNCT_10 Comepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1orderpastthat kinga certain manvn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic
2come in a quoteinfinitivemy man vocativevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3assemble in a quoteinfinitiveone placevn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4is in a quotepresentall men in Sāvatthibirthone place nsubj; blind propertytree 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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