The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 250
Parallels and variants are found in the Mahābhārata, the Panchatantra, Bidpai’s Fables, the Hitopadesha, the Kathāsaritsāgara, and other fiction-collections, especially those of the Jains.
What happens: find · To what, where: Parallels, Mahābhārata
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: 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 | Parallels | parallel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 variants | cc |
| 3 | variants | variant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Parallels | conj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 found | aux:pass |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Mahābhārata | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mahābhārata | det |
| 8 | Mahābhārata | Mahābhārata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Panchatantra | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Panchatantra | det |
| 11 | Panchatantra | Panchatantra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mahābhārata | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Fables | punct |
| 13 | Bidpai | Bidpai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Fables | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Bidpai | case |
| 15 | Fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Mahābhārata | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Hitopadesha | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Hitopadesha | det |
| 18 | Hitopadesha | Hitopadesha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mahābhārata | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Kathāsaritsāgara | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Kathāsaritsāgara | det |
| 21 | Kathāsaritsāgara | Kathāsaritsāgara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mahābhārata | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 collections | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 collections | cc |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 collections | amod |
| 25 | fiction | fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 collections | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 fiction | punct |
| 27 | collections | collection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 found | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 those | punct |
| 29 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 30 those | advmod |
| 30 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 27 collections | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Jains | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Jains | det |
| 33 | Jains | Jain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 30 those | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | Parallels and variants | the Mahābhārata and the Panchatantra and Bidpai's Fables and the Hitopadesha and the Kathāsaritsāgara | other fiction collections obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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