The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 150
In olden times at Benāres, Brahmadatta king of Kāsi was rich, possessed of great wealth, ample means of enjoyment, a mighty army, many vehicles, an extensive kingdom, and well filled treasuries and storehouses.
Who acts: Brahmadatta king, ample · What happens: be, possess, mean, fill · To what, where: Benāres, treasuries
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brahmadatta king, ample), 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 | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rich | obl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Benāres | case |
| 5 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rich | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
| 7 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 king | compound |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rich | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Kāsi | case |
| 10 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 king | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rich | cop |
| 12 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 possessed | punct |
| 14 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rich | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wealth | case |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wealth | amod |
| 17 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 possessed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
| 19 | ample | ample | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 means | nsubj |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rich | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 enjoyment | case |
| 22 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 means | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 army | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 army | det |
| 25 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 army | amod |
| 26 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 enjoyment | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 vehicles | punct |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 vehicles | amod |
| 29 | vehicles | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 enjoyment | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 kingdom | punct |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 kingdom | det |
| 32 | extensive | extensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 kingdom | amod |
| 33 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 enjoyment | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 filled | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 filled | cc |
| 36 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 filled | advmod |
| 37 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rich | conj |
| 38 | treasuries | treasury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 filled | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 storehouses | cc |
| 40 | storehouses | storehouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 treasuries | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rich | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | Benāres | time | rich property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | possess | participle | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi not said here | of great wealth | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | mean | present | ample | of enjoyment and a mighty army and many vehicles and a extensive kingdom | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | fill | participle | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi not said here | treasuries and storehouses | well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent treasury=Patient |
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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