The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 108
Then Brahmadatta king of Kāsi and Prince Dīghāvu granted each other their lives and shook hands and swore an oath not to injure each other.
Who acts: Brahmadatta king · What happens: grant, shake, swear, not injure · To what, where: other lives, hands, oath, each
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 granted | advmod |
| 2 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 granted | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kāsi | case |
| 5 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Prince | cc |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Kāsi | conj |
| 8 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Prince | flat |
| 9 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 lives | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lives | amod |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 lives | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 granted | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shook | cc |
| 15 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 granted | conj |
| 16 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shook | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 swore | cc |
| 18 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 granted | conj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 oath | det |
| 20 | oath | oath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 swore | obj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 injure | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 injure | mark |
| 23 | injure | injure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 swore | advcl |
| 24 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 23 injure | obj |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 each | fixed |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi and Prince | feet's other lives | then | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent life=Theme | |||
| 2 | shake | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi and Prince not said here | hands | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 3 | swear | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi and Prince not said here | a oath | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent oath=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not injure | to-infinitive | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi and Prince not said here | each | 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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