The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 97
When he was old enough to walk and could run hither and thither, another being of merit also received a new existence as his brother.
Who acts: Brahmadatta, merit · What happens: be, walk, run, receive · To what, where: new existence
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: who acts (Brahmadatta, merit), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 old | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 old | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 old | cop |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 received | advcl |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 old | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 walk | mark |
| 7 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 old | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 run | cc |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 run | aux |
| 10 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 walk | conj |
| 11 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 10 run | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thither | cc |
| 13 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 11 hither | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 old | punct |
| 15 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 merit | det |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 merit | cop |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 merit | case |
| 18 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 received | nsubj |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 received | advmod |
| 20 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 existence | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 existence | amod |
| 23 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 received | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 brother | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 brother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 received | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Brahmadatta | enough, old property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | walk | to-infinitive | Brahmadatta not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | could | Brahmadatta not said here | thither | hither property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | gerund | of another merit | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | receive | past | another merit | a new existence | as Brahmadatta's brother | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent existence=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.
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