--- title: So turning over the kingdom to his ministers, he mounted his chariot… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: So turning over the kingdom to his ministers, he mounted his chariot, departed from the city in disguise, accompanied only by his charioteer, and went as far as the frontier testing the countryside. Who acts: place, city, frontier. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, O --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/104/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/) / 104 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 104 So turning over the kingdom to his ministers, he mounted his chariot, departed from the city in disguise, accompanied only by his charioteer, and went as far as the frontier testing the countryside. **Who acts:** place, city, frontier · **What happens:** turn, mount, depart, accompany, go, test · **To what, where:** kingdom, chariot, city, charioteer, countryside This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (place, city, frontier), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:7:109 # text = So turning over the kingdom to his ministers, he mounted his chariot, departed from the city in disguise, accompanied only by his charioteer, and went as far as the frontier testing the countryside. 1 So so ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ _ 3 over over ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 ministers minister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 mounted mount VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 chariot chariot NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 departed depart VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 disguise disguise NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 accompanied accompany VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 charioteer charioteer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 30 as as ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 29 advmod _ _ 32 as as ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 frontier frontier NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 35 testing test VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 countryside countryside NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | gerund | place *not said here* | | | the kingdom | | to place's ministers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme over kingdom=Source to minister=Trajectory | | 2 | **mount** | past | place | place's chariot | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Patient | | 3 | **depart** | participle | | place's chariot *not said here* | | the city in disguise | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from city=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **accompany** | participle | the city in disguise *not said here* | place's charioteer | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charioteer=Theme | | 5 | **go** | past | place *not said here* | | | | | as the frontier; far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **test** | gerund | the frontier *not said here* | the countryside | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countryside=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. - ← previous: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/103/) - next →: [sentence 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/105/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/)