The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 12
As King Brahmadatta (8), he overcomes anger with kindness, evil with good, the stingy with gifts, and the liar with truth.
Who acts: Gotama · What happens: overcome · To what, where: anger
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), 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 | _ | 3 Brahmadatta | case |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Brahmadatta | compound |
| 3 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 overcomes | obl |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 5 8 | punct |
| 5 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 Brahmadatta | appos |
| 6 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 5 8 | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Brahmadatta | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 overcomes | nsubj |
| 9 | overcomes | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 overcomes | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 kindness | case |
| 12 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 overcomes | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 evil | punct |
| 14 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kindness | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 good | case |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 evil | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stingy | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stingy | det |
| 19 | stingy | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 evil | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 gifts | case |
| 21 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stingy | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 liar | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 liar | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 liar | det |
| 25 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 overcomes | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 truth | case |
| 27 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 liar | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 overcomes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | present | Gotama | anger | as King Brahmadatta; with kindness and evil with good; the liar with truth conj | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anger=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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