The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 30

And having approached, he adjusted his upper robe so as to cover one shoulder only, touched his right kneepan to the ground, bent his joined hands in reverent salutation before that anger-eating ogre, and thrice proclaimed his name: “Sire, I am Sakka king of gods!

Who acts: Ogre, thrice, gods · What happens: have, approach, adjust, cover, touch, bend · To what, where: upper robe, one shoulder, right kneepan, joined hands, reverent salutation, name

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 (Ogre, thrice, gods), 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	_	6 adjusted	cc
2	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 adjusted	advcl
3	approached	approach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 having	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 having	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 adjusted	nsubj
6	adjusted	adjust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 robe	nmod:poss
8	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 robe	amod
9	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 adjusted	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 cover	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 cover	mark
12	to	to	PART	_	13 cover	mark
13	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 adjusted	advcl
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 shoulder	nummod
15	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cover	obj
16	only	only	ADV	_	13 cover	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 touched	punct
18	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 adjusted	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 kneepan	nmod:poss
20	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 kneepan	amod
21	kneepan	kneepan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 touched	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 ground	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ground	det
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 touched	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bent	punct
26	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 touched	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hands	nmod:poss
28	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 hands	amod
29	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bent	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 salutation	case
31	reverent	reverent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 salutation	amod
32	salutation	salutation	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bent	obl
33	before	before	ADP	_	38 ogre	case
34	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 ogre	det
35	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 eating	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 anger	punct
37	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 ogre	amod
38	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bent	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 proclaimed	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 proclaimed	cc
41	thrice	thrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 proclaimed	nsubj
42	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 adjusted	conj
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 name	nmod:poss
44	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 proclaimed	obj
45	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 Sire	punct
46	“	"	PUNCT	_	47 Sire	punct
47	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 proclaimed	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 king	punct
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 king	nsubj
50	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 king	cop
51	Sakka	Sakka	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 king	compound
52	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 Sire	appos
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 gods	case
54	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 king	nmod
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 adjusted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	Ogre not said here					tree rules
2	approach	participle	Ogre not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	adjust	past	Ogre	Ogre's upper robe				vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robe=Patient
4	cover	to-infinitive	Ogre not said here	one shoulder				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shoulder=Destination
5	touch	past		Ogre's right kneepan			to the ground	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kneepan=Co-Theme
6	bend	past		Ogre's joined hands	reverent salutation	before that eating ogre		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in salutation=Location
7	join	participle						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
8	eat	gerund					anger compound	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	proclaim	past	thrice	Ogre's name			Sire obl	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme
10	is a in a quote	present	gods = god	Sakka king			of gods	tree rules
11	name		Ogre					nom name «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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 30

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 30