The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 159
Thereupon Brahmadatta king of Kāsi conquered the army and vehicles and territory and treasuries and storehouses of Dīghīti king of Kosala, and took possession.
Who acts: Brahmadatta king · What happens: conquer, take · To what, where: army, possession
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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 6 conquered | advmod |
| 2 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conquered | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kāsi | case |
| 5 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 army | det |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conquered | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 vehicles | cc |
| 10 | vehicles | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 army | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 territory | cc |
| 12 | territory | territory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vehicles | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 treasuries | cc |
| 14 | treasuries | treasury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 vehicles | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 storehouses | cc |
| 16 | storehouses | storehouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 vehicles | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 king | case |
| 18 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 king | compound |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 storehouses | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Kosala | case |
| 21 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 king | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 conquered | conj |
| 25 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | the army and vehicles and territory and treasuries and storehouses of Dīghīti king of Kosala | thereupon property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient | |||
| 2 | take | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi not said here | possession | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
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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