The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 58
In times past Kadrū and Vinatā, the two wives of Kashyapa, had a quarrel.
What happens: have · To what, where: quarrel
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: 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 | 14 had | obl |
| 3 | past | past | ADP | _ | 4 Kadrū | case |
| 4 | Kadrū | Kadrū | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 times | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Vinatā | cc |
| 6 | Vinatā | Vinatā | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Kadrū | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wives | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wives | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 wives | nummod |
| 10 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Kadrū | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Kashyapa | case |
| 12 | Kashyapa | Kashyapa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 wives | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 times | punct |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 quarrel | det |
| 16 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a quarrel | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Patient |
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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