The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 108
In times past, when Brahmadatta ruled at Benāres, the Future Buddha was reborn as a lion, and when he grew up, lived in a forest.
Who acts: Brahmadatta · What happens: rule, reborn, grow up, live · To what, where: Benāres, Future Buddha, forest
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brahmadatta), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 times | case |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ruled | obl |
| 3 | past | past | ADV | _ | 2 times | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 times | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 ruled | advmod |
| 6 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | nsubj |
| 7 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Benāres | case |
| 9 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 reborn | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Buddha | det |
| 12 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Buddha | compound |
| 13 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 reborn | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 reborn | aux:pass |
| 15 | reborn | reborn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Benāres | acl:relcl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 lion | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lion | det |
| 18 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reborn | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grew | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 grew | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ruled | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 grew | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lived | punct |
| 26 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 grew | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 forest | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 forest | det |
| 29 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lived | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | Brahmadatta | Benāres | time | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | reborn | past · passive | the Future Buddha | as a lion | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow up | past | Brahmadatta | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | live | past | Brahmadatta not said here | a forest | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location |
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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