The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 62
With Story 6, _Brahmadatta and the prince_, compare E. Chavannes, Cinq Cents Contes 10; also Jātaka 371.
Who acts: Brahmadatta · What happens: compare · To what, where: E.
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 (Brahmadatta), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 Story | case |
| 2 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 compare | obl |
| 3 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Story | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Story | punct |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brahmadatta | punct |
| 6 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 compare | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 prince | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Brahmadatta | conj |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brahmadatta | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 compare | punct |
| 12 | compare | compare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | E. | E. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 compare | obj |
| 14 | Chavannes | Chavannes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 E. | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Cents | punct |
| 16 | Cinq | Cinq | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Cents | compound |
| 17 | Cents | Cents | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 E. | conj |
| 18 | Contes | Contes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Cents | flat |
| 19 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 Cents | flat |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 Jātaka | punct |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 Jātaka | advmod |
| 22 | Jātaka | Jātaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 compare | parataxis |
| 23 | 371 | 371 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 Jātaka | flat |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 compare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compare | infinitive | Brahmadatta and the prince | E. and Cinq Cents | with Story; Jātaka parataxis | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent e.=Patient with story=Co-Patient |
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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