The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 35
Then, monks, Sakka king of gods sat down in his own seat, and appealing to the gods of the Thirty-three, uttered at that time the following stanzas:
Who acts: monks · What happens: sit down, appeal, utter, follow · To what, where: own seat, gods
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 (monks), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 sat | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 king | punct |
| 5 | Sakka | Sakka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | compound |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 monks | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gods | case |
| 8 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 king | nmod |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 sat | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 seat | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 seat | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seat | amod |
| 14 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appealing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 appealing | cc |
| 17 | appealing | appeal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sat | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 gods | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 gods | det |
| 20 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 appealing | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 three | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 three | det |
| 23 | Thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 three | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Thirty | punct |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 gods | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 uttered | punct |
| 27 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 gods | acl |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 time | det |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 uttered | obl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 stanzas | det |
| 32 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 stanzas | amod |
| 33 | stanzas | stanza | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 time | appos |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | monks | Monk's own seat | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location | |||
| 2 | appeal | gerund | monks not said here | to the gods of the Thirty three | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to god=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | utter speech: other | participle | the gods of the Thirty three not said here | time | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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