The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 78
On the day when he received his name, because, as they said, “He is born extending a noble heart to the multitude,” they gave him the name Noble-heart, Alīnacitta.
Who acts: king, soothsayers, name · What happens: receive, say, bear, extend, give, heart · To what, where: name, king, noble heart, multitude · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, soothsayers, name), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 received | obl |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 received | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 received | nsubj |
| 6 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 received | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 said | mark |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 said | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 received | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 born | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 born | punct |
| 17 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 born | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 born | aux:pass |
| 19 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 gave | advcl |
| 20 | extending | extend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 born | xcomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 heart | det |
| 22 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 heart | amod |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 extending | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 multitude | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 multitude | det |
| 26 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 extending | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 born | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 born | punct |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gave | nsubj |
| 30 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 gave | iobj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 name | det |
| 33 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 heart | nsubj |
| 34 | Noble | Noble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 heart | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 Noble | punct |
| 36 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gave | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Alīnacitta | punct |
| 38 | Alīnacitta | Alīnacitta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 heart | appos |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | king | king's name | day | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | soothsayers = soothsayer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | bear in a quote | present · passive | king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | extend in a quote | gerund | a noble heart | the multitude | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent heart=Theme to multitude=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | give | past | soothsayers = soothsayer | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | heart | the name | Alīnacitta appos | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | name | king | nom name «communication 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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