The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 99
Now in the morning a company of monks put on their under-garments, took bowl and robe, and entered Sāvatthi for alms.
What happens: put, take, enter · To what, where: monks, garments, bowl, Sāvatthi
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 | 16 took | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 company | det |
| 6 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 monks | case |
| 8 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 company | nmod |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 monks | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 garments | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 garments | nmod:poss |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 garments | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 under | punct |
| 14 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 robe | cc |
| 19 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bowl | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 entered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 entered | cc |
| 22 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 23 | Sāvatthi | Sāvatthi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 entered | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 alms | case |
| 25 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 entered | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | participle | monks not said here | others's garments | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on garment=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take | past | bowl and robe | now; morning | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | Sāvatthi | for alms | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sāvatthi=Destination |
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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