The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 55
In olden times two ascetics, brothers, lived by the Ganges river.
What happens: live
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lived | obl |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 ascetics | nummod |
| 5 | ascetics | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 times | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brothers | punct |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ascetics | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 times | punct |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 river | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 river | det |
| 12 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 river | compound |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | participle | time | by the Ganges river | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=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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