The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 2
Now at that time the Future Buddha was reborn in the kingdom of Kāsi in the household of a Brahman of high station.
What happens: reborn · To what, where: Future Buddha, kingdom
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 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 | 9 reborn | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Buddha | det |
| 6 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Buddha | compound |
| 7 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 reborn | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reborn | aux:pass |
| 9 | reborn | reborn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 kingdom | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kingdom | det |
| 12 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reborn | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Kāsi | case |
| 14 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 kingdom | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 household | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 household | det |
| 17 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reborn | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Brahman | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Brahman | det |
| 20 | Brahman | brahman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 household | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 station | case |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 station | amod |
| 23 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Brahman | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reborn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reborn | past · passive | the Future Buddha | the kingdom of Kāsi | now; time | in the household of a Brahman of high station | 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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