The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 87
_ A country of North India of which Benāres was the capital.
Who acts: North India · What happens: be · To what, where: country
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: who acts (North India), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 country | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 country | det |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 India | case |
| 5 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 India | compound |
| 6 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 country | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 capital | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 capital | nsubj |
| 9 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 capital | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 capital | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 capital | det |
| 12 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 India | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 country | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | North India | of the capital; Benāres nsubj | tree rules |
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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