The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 96

In times past, when Brahmadatta ruled at Benāres, the Future Buddha was reborn in a merchant’s household, and on the death of his father, succeeded to the post of merchant.

Who acts: Brahmadatta, father · What happens: rule, reborn, succeed, die · To what, where: Benāres, Future Buddha, household

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, father), 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	_	20 household	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 merchant	det
18	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 household	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 merchant	case
20	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reborn	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 death	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 death	cc
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 death	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 death	det
25	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ruled	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 father	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 father	nmod:poss
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 death	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 succeeded	punct
30	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ruled	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 post	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 post	det
33	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 succeeded	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 merchant	case
35	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 post	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ruled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	past	Brahmadatta		Benāres	time	on the death of Buddha's father	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	reborn	past · passive		the Future Buddha	a merchant's household			tree rules
3	succeed	past	Brahmadatta not said here				to the post of merchant	vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	die		Buddha's father					nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 96

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 96