The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 8
Stories 25 and 26 are also _Jātaka_ tales, adapted from C. H. Tawney’s translation of the _Kathāsaritsāgara_.
Who acts: Stories, Kathāsaritsāgara · What happens: be, adapt, translate · To what, where: Jātaka tales, translation
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 (Stories, Kathāsaritsāgara), 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 | Stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tales | nsubj |
| 2 | 25 | 25 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Stories | appos |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 26 | cc |
| 4 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 25 | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tales | cop |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 tales | advmod |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 10 tales | punct |
| 8 | Jātaka | Jātaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tales | compound |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Jātaka | punct |
| 10 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 adapted | punct |
| 12 | adapted | adapt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 tales | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 translation | case |
| 14 | C. | C. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 H. | compound |
| 15 | H. | H. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 translation | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Tawney | Tawney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 H. | flat |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 H. | case |
| 18 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 adapted | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Kathāsaritsāgara | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Kathāsaritsāgara | det |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 22 Kathāsaritsāgara | punct |
| 22 | Kathāsaritsāgara | Kathāsaritsāgara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 translation | nmod |
| 23 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 adapted | punct |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tales | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Stories | Jātaka tales | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | adapt | participle | Jātaka tales not said here | C. H.'s translation of the Kathāsaritsāgara | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | translate | the Kathāsaritsāgara | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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