The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 25
In times past, when Brahmadatta ruled at Benāres, the Future Buddha was reborn in the kingdom of Kāsi in the household of a Brahman.
Who acts: Brahmadatta · What happens: rule, reborn · To what, where: Benāres, Future Buddha, kingdom
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. 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 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 kingdom | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kingdom | det |
| 18 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reborn | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Kāsi | case |
| 20 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 kingdom | nmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 household | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 household | det |
| 23 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reborn | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Brahman | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 Brahman | det |
| 26 | Brahman | brahman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 household | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | 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 | the kingdom of Kāsi | in the household of a Brahman | tree rules |
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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