The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 10
In times past, when Brahmadatta ruled at Benāres, the Future Buddha was reborn as a quail, and made his home in a field of clods, turned up by the plow.
Who acts: Brahmadatta · What happens: rule, reborn, make, turn up · To what, where: Benāres, Future Buddha, home, field, clods
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. 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 quail | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 quail | det |
| 18 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reborn | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ruled | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 home | nmod:poss |
| 23 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 field | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 field | det |
| 26 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 clods | case |
| 28 | clods | clod | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 field | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 turned | punct |
| 30 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 clods | acl |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 turned | compound:prt |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 plow | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 plow | det |
| 34 | plow | plow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 turned | obl |
| 35 | . | . | 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 quail | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Brahmadatta not said here | Buddha's home | a field of clods | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset home=Product | |||
| 4 | turn up | participle | clods not said here | by the plow | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by plow=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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