The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 19
In former times, monks, a certain ogre, ill-favored, dwarfish, sat in the seat of Sakka king of gods.
What happens: favor, sit · To what, where: certain ogre, seat
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sat | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 monks | punct |
| 5 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 times | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ogre | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ogre | det |
| 8 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ogre | amod |
| 9 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 times | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 favored | punct |
| 11 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 favored | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ill | punct |
| 13 | favored | favor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ogre | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dwarfish | punct |
| 15 | dwarfish | dwarfish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 favored | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 times | punct |
| 17 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 seat | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 seat | det |
| 20 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sat | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 22 | Sakka | Sakka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 king | compound |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seat | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gods | case |
| 25 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 king | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | favor | participle | a certain ogre not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | sit | past | the seat of Sakka king of gods | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=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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