The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 124
_ In ancient India kings were not anointed, but sprinkled.
What happens: not anoint, sprinkle · To what, where: _ kings
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 kings | compound |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 India | case |
| 3 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 India | amod |
| 4 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 _ | nmod |
| 5 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 anointed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 anointed | aux:pass |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 anointed | advmod |
| 8 | anointed | anoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sprinkled | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 sprinkled | cc |
| 11 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 anointed | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 anointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not anoint | past · passive | _ kings | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | sprinkle | past | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
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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