The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 195

Seven days after Gotama was born, his mother died, and he was brought up by his aunt and step-mother.

Who acts: mother, aunt · What happens: bear, die, bring up · To what, where: Seven days, Gotama

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, aunt), 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	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 days	nummod
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 born	nsubj:pass
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 Gotama	case
4	Gotama	Gotama	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 days	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 born	aux:pass
6	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 died	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 died	nsubj
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 born	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 brought	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 brought	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 brought	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 brought	aux:pass
15	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 born	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 brought	compound:prt
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 aunt	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 aunt	nmod:poss
19	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brought	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 mother	cc
21	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mother	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 step	punct
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 aunt	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		Seven days after Gotama	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	die	past	Gotama's mother		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	bring up	past · passive	Gotama's aunt and step mother	Gotama	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=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 1, sentence 195

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 195