The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 170
And having approached, he said this to the Brahman who was the house-priest of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi: “Sir, your female friend is with child.
Who acts: King, Brahman, female friend · What happens: have, approach, say, be · To what, where: this, house priest · 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 (King, Brahman, female friend), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 2 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 having | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 having | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Brahman | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Brahman | det |
| 10 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 priest | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 priest | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 priest | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 priest | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 house | punct |
| 16 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Brahman | acl:relcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 king | case |
| 18 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 king | compound |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 priest | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Kāsi | case |
| 21 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 king | nmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 Sir | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Sir | punct |
| 24 | Sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 child | punct |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 friend | nmod:poss |
| 27 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 friend | amod |
| 28 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 child | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 child | cop |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 child | case |
| 31 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Sir | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | King not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | approach | participle | King not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | King | this | to the Brahman; Sir and child parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | past | the Brahman | the house priest | of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | your female friend | with child | 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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