The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 106
The mother of Gotama is said to have stood upright at his birth and to have supported herself by a branch of a Sāl-tree.
What happens: say, stand, support · To what, where: mother, birth, Centre · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mother | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Gotama | case |
| 4 | Gotama | Gotama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 mother | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux:pass |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stood | mark |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 stood | aux |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 said | xcomp |
| 10 | upright | upright | ADV | _ | 9 stood | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 birth | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 birth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 supported | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 supported | mark |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 supported | aux |
| 17 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 stood | conj |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 supported | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 branch | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 branch | det |
| 21 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 supported | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tree | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 24 | Sāl | Sāl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 tree | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Sāl | punct |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 branch | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | the mother of Gotama | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive · perfect | Gotama's birth | upright property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at birth=Location | ||||
| 3 | support | to-infinitive · perfect | Centre | by a branch of a Sāl tree | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer herself=Stimulus |
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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