The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 1
Now the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala approached the Brahman who was the house-priest of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi.
Who acts: consort, Brahman · What happens: approach, be · To what, where: Brahman, house priest
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (consort, 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 | 9 approached | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 consort | det |
| 3 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 approached | 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 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Brahman | det |
| 11 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 approached | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 priest | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 priest | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 priest | det |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 priest | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 house | punct |
| 17 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Brahman | acl:relcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 king | case |
| 19 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 king | compound |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 priest | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Kāsi | case |
| 22 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 king | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala | the Brahman | now | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brahman=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the Brahman | the house priest | of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | 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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