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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ordered | cc |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 10 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ordered | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 man | nmod:poss |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Come | vocative |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 assemble | punct |
| 15 | assemble | assemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 Come | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 place | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 place | nummod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 assemble | obl |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 men | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 men | det |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 blind | nsubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Sāvatthi | case |
| 23 | Sāvatthi | Sāvatthi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 men | nmod |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 blind | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 blind | cop |
| 26 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | acl:relcl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 birth | case |
| 28 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 blind | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | that king | a certain man | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | my man vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | assemble in a quote | infinitive | one place | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | all men in Sāvatthi | birth | one place nsubj; blind property | tree 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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