The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 11
As a Brahman’s son (2), he befriends in turn a pampered prince, a snake, a rat, and a parrot, with the result that he is basely betrayed by the prince, but treated with profound gratitude by the three animals.
Who acts: Gotama, prince · What happens: befriend, pamper, betray, treat · To what, where: pampered prince, turn, Gotama
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: who acts (Gotama, prince), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 5 son | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Brahman | det |
| 3 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Brahman | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 befriends | obl |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 7 2 | punct |
| 7 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 son | appos |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 2 | punct |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 befriends | nsubj |
| 11 | befriends | befriend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 turn | case |
| 13 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 befriends | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 15 | pampered | pamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 prince | amod |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 befriends | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 snake | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 snake | det |
| 19 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prince | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rat | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 rat | det |
| 22 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prince | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 parrot | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 parrot | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 parrot | det |
| 26 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 befriends | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 result | punct |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 result | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 result | det |
| 30 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 parrot | appos |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 betrayed | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 betrayed | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 betrayed | aux:pass |
| 34 | basely | basely | ADV | _ | 35 betrayed | advmod |
| 35 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 result | acl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 prince | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 prince | det |
| 38 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 betrayed | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 treated | punct |
| 40 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 treated | cc |
| 41 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 befriends | conj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 gratitude | case |
| 43 | profound | profound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 gratitude | amod |
| 44 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 treated | obl |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 48 animals | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 animals | det |
| 47 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 animals | nummod |
| 48 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 treated | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 befriends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befriend | present | Gotama | a pampered prince and a snake and a rat | turn | as a Brahman's son; a parrot obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | pamper | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | betray | present · passive | the prince | Gotama | basely property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | treat | participle | Gotama not said here | with profound gratitude; by the three animals | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with gratitude=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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