The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 109
And when, in obedience to the king’s command, he had laid hands on all the men in Sāvatthi who were blind from birth, he approached that king.
Who acts: men, king · What happens: lay, be, approach, command · To what, where: obedience, birth, king · 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 (men, king), 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 | _ | 29 approached | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 laid | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 obedience | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 obedience | case |
| 5 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 command | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 command | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obedience | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 obedience | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 laid | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 laid | aux |
| 14 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 approached | advcl |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 laid | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 men | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 men | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 men | det |
| 19 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hands | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Sāvatthi | case |
| 21 | Sāvatthi | Sāvatthi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 men | nmod |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 blind | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 blind | cop |
| 24 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 men | acl:relcl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 birth | case |
| 26 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blind | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 laid | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 approached | nsubj |
| 29 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 approached | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past · perfect · passive | obedience to the king's command | king nsubj; hands obj | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme hand=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is | past | all men in Sāvatthi | birth | blind property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | approach | past | king | that king | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 4 | command | the king | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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