The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 152
Now Brahmadatta king of Kāsi drew up his fourfold army and went up against Dīghīti king of Kosala.
Who acts: Brahmadatta king · What happens: draw up, go up · To what, where: fourfold army
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), 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 | 6 drew | advmod |
| 2 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kāsi | case |
| 5 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 drew | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 army | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fourfold | fourfold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 army | amod |
| 10 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drew | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drew | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 went | compound:prt |
| 14 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 king | case |
| 15 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 king | compound |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Kosala | case |
| 18 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 king | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw up | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | King's fourfold army | now | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | |||
| 2 | go up | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi not said here | against Dīghīti king of Kosala | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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