The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 136
Now at that time a resident of Benāres, a certain treasurer, who had buried forty crores of wealth by the river-bank, by reason of his craving for that wealth, had been reborn on top of that wealth as a snake.
Who acts: river bank, Benāres · What happens: bury, reborn, crave · To what, where: certain treasurer, top
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: who acts (river bank, Benāres), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 reborn | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 reborn | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 resident | det |
| 6 | resident | resident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Benāres | case |
| 8 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 resident | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 treasurer | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 treasurer | det |
| 11 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 treasurer | amod |
| 12 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Benāres | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 buried | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 buried | aux |
| 16 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 treasurer | acl:relcl |
| 17 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 crores | nummod |
| 18 | crores | crore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 buried | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wealth | case |
| 20 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crores | nmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 bank | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bank | det |
| 23 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bank | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 river | punct |
| 25 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buried | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 reason | punct |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 reason | case |
| 28 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 buried | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 craving | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 craving | nmod:poss |
| 31 | craving | craving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reason | nmod |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 wealth | case |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 wealth | det |
| 34 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 reason | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 reborn | aux |
| 37 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 reborn | aux:pass |
| 38 | reborn | reborn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 top | case |
| 40 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 reborn | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 wealth | case |
| 42 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 wealth | det |
| 43 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 top | nmod |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 snake | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 snake | det |
| 46 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 reborn | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 reborn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past · perfect · passive | the river bank | a certain treasurer | by reason of Benāres's craving for that wealth; forty crores of wealth obj | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme crore=Destination | |||
| 2 | reborn | past · perfect · passive | top of that wealth | now; time | as a snake | tree rules | |||
| 3 | crave | Benāres | nom craving «feeling transitive»: poss=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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