The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 24
In times past, when Brahmadatta ruled at Benāres, there was a carpenters’ settlement not far from Benāres.
Who acts: Brahmadatta · What happens: rule, be · To what, where: Benāres, settlement
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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 times | case |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 past | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | past | past | ADV | _ | 7 ruled | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ruled | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 ruled | advmod |
| 6 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | nsubj |
| 7 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 settlement | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Benāres | case |
| 9 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ruled | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 settlement | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 carpenters | det |
| 14 | carpenters | carpenter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 settlement | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 14 carpenters | case |
| 16 | settlement | settlement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 far | advmod |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 settlement | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Benāres | case |
| 20 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 far | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 settlement | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | Brahmadatta | Benāres | past property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is a | past | a carpenters's settlement | a carpenters nmod:poss; far property | tree rules |
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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