The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 115
In times past Brahmadatta ruled at Benāres.
What happens: rule · To what, where: Benāres
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 times | case |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ruled | obl |
| 3 | past | past | ADP | _ | 4 Brahmadatta | case |
| 4 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 times | nmod |
| 5 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Benāres | case |
| 7 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ruled | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | Benāres | time | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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