The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 91

Now at that time there entered Sāvatthi for alms a company of heretics, both monks and Brahmans, wandering ascetics, holding heretical views, patient of heresy, delighting in heresy, relying upon the reliance of heretical views.

What happens: enter, wonder, hold, delight, rely · To what, where: Sāvatthi, ascetics, heretical views, heresy

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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 entered	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entered	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 time	advmod
6	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Sāvatthi	Sāvatthi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 entered	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 alms	case
9	alms	alm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 entered	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 company	det
11	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entered	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 heretics	case
13	heretics	heretic	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 company	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 monks	punct
15	both	both	CCONJ	_	16 monks	cc:preconj
16	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 entered	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Brahmans	cc
18	Brahmans	Brahman	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 monks	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wandering	punct
20	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 entered	advcl
21	ascetics	ascetic	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wandering	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 holding	punct
23	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 wandering	conj
24	heretical	heretical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 views	amod
25	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 holding	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 patient	punct
27	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 views	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 heresy	case
29	heresy	heresy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 patient	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 delighting	punct
31	delighting	delight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 wandering	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 heresy	case
33	heresy	heresy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 delighting	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 relying	punct
35	relying	rely	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 delighting	conj
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	38 reliance	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 reliance	det
38	reliance	reliance	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 relying	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 views	case
40	heretical	heretical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 views	amod
41	views	view	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 reliance	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	Sāvatthi		now; time	for alms; monks and Brahmans obl; a company of heretics obj	tree rules
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	ascetics				tree rules
3	hold	gerund	heretical views and patient of heresy				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme
4	delight	gerund		heresy			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	rely	gerund				upon the reliance of heretical views	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	rely		heretical views				nom reliance «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 91

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 91