The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 164
Accordingly the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala said this to Dīghīti king of Kosala: “I am with child, O king.
Who acts: consort · What happens: say, be · To what, where: this, Dīghīti king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (consort), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 consort | det |
| 3 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | compound |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consort | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Kosala | case |
| 8 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 said | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 king | compound |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Kosala | case |
| 15 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 king | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 child | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 child | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 child | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 child | cop |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 child | case |
| 21 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 king | punct |
| 23 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 24 king | discourse |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 child | appos |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala | this | Dīghīti king of Kosala | accordingly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to king=Recipient | ||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala = consort | with child; king appos | 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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