The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 25
By the favor of that tree the king obtained a son, who was none other than the Future Buddha, and his name was Jīmūta-vāhana.
Who acts: king, son, name · What happens: obtain, be, favor, name · To what, where: son, none, Jīmūta vāhana, tree
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, son, name), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 favor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 favor | det |
| 3 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obtained | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 favor | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obtained | nsubj |
| 9 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 son | det |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obtained | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 none | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 none | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 none | cop |
| 15 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 11 son | appos |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 none | amod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 Buddha | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Buddha | det |
| 19 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Buddha | compound |
| 20 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 other | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 vāhana | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 vāhana | cc |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 name | nmod:poss |
| 24 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 vāhana | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 vāhana | cop |
| 26 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 vāhana | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 vāhana | punct |
| 28 | vāhana | vāhana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obtained | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 obtained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | past | the king | a son | by the favor of that tree | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a son | none | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | king's name | Jīmūta vāhana | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | favor | that tree | nom favor «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | name | king | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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