The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 168
Now at that time the Brahman who was the house-priest of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi was a friend of Dīghīti king of Kosala.
Who acts: Brahman · What happens: be · To what, where: house priest, friend
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 (Brahman), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Now | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Brahman | det |
| 6 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 friend | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 priest | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 priest | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 priest | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 priest | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 house | punct |
| 12 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Brahman | acl:relcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 king | case |
| 14 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 king | compound |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 priest | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Kāsi | case |
| 17 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 king | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 friend | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 friend | det |
| 20 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 king | case |
| 22 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 king | compound |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 friend | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Kosala | case |
| 25 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 king | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Brahman | the house priest | of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the Brahman | a friend | of Dīghīti king of Kosala | 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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