The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 10
And having approached, he said this to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi: “Thus, O king, the signs appear: To-morrow at sunrise let the fourfold army be drawn up, clad in armor, standing in a pleasant place, and let the swords be washed.”
Who acts: Brahman, signs, fourfold army, swords · What happens: have, approach, say, appear, let, draw up · To what, where: this, king, fourfold army, armor, pleasant place, swords · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Brahman, signs, fourfold army, swords), 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 king | case |
| 9 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 king | compound |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Kāsi | case |
| 12 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 king | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 king | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 king | punct |
| 15 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 18 king | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Thus | punct |
| 17 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 18 king | discourse |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 appear | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 signs | det |
| 21 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 appear | nsubj |
| 22 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 king | acl:relcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 24 | To | to | ADP | _ | 26 morrow | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 To | punct |
| 26 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 let | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 sunrise | case |
| 28 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 morrow | nmod |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 army | det |
| 31 | fourfold | fourfold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 army | amod |
| 32 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 let | obj |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 drawn | aux:pass |
| 34 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 let | xcomp |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 drawn | compound:prt |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 clad | punct |
| 37 | clad | clad | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 let | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 armor | case |
| 39 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 clad | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 standing | punct |
| 41 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 clad | advcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 place | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 place | det |
| 44 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 place | amod |
| 45 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 standing | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 let | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 let | cc |
| 48 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 swords | det |
| 50 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 let | obj |
| 51 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 52 washed | aux:pass |
| 52 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 let | xcomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 48 let | punct |
| 54 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Brahman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | approach | participle | Brahman not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Brahman | this | to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi; king obl | tree rules | |||
| 4 | appear in a quote | present | the signs | king not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location king=Theme | ||||
| 5 | let in a quote | past | the fourfold army | to morrow at sunrise | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | draw up in a quote | infinitive · passive | the fourfold army not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 7 | clad in a quote | participle | armor | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | stand in a quote | gerund | a pleasant place | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | |||||
| 9 | let in a quote | infinitive | the swords | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | wash in a quote | infinitive · passive | the swords not said here | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V» |
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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