The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 102
Thereupon Brahmadatta king of Kāsi prostrated himself on his face at the feet of Prince Dīghāvu, and said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Grant me my life, dear Dīghāvu!
Who acts: Brahmadatta king · What happens: prostrate, say, grant · To what, where: king, face, this, Prince, life, me · 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 (Brahmadatta king), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 6 prostrated | advmod |
| 2 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prostrated | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kāsi | case |
| 5 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | prostrated | prostrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 prostrated | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prostrated | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 feet | det |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 prostrated | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Prince | case |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 feet | nmod |
| 16 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Prince | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prostrated | parataxis |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 said | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Prince | case |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl |
| 23 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Prince | flat |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 Grant | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Grant | punct |
| 26 | Grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 Grant | obj |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 life | nmod:poss |
| 29 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Grant | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Dīghāvu | punct |
| 31 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Dīghāvu | amod |
| 32 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Grant | obl |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 prostrated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prostrate | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | king | king's face | at the feet of Prince; thereupon property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | this | Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to prince=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | grant in a quote | infinitive | my life | me | dear Dīghāvu obl | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal life=Theme |
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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