The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 109
Then Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Now then, dear Dīghāvu, harness the chariot; let us be going.”
Who acts: Brahmadatta king, dear Dīghāvu, us · What happens: say, harness, let, go · To what, where: this, Prince, chariot, us · 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, dear Dīghāvu, us), 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 | 6 said | advmod |
| 2 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kāsi | case |
| 5 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 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 | _ | 9 Prince | case |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 10 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Prince | flat |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 harness | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 harness | punct |
| 13 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 then | advmod |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 harness | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Dīghāvu | punct |
| 16 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Dīghāvu | amod |
| 17 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 harness | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Dīghāvu | punct |
| 19 | harness | harness | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chariot | det |
| 21 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 harness | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 harness | conj |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 let | obj |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 going | aux |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 let | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 harness | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 harness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | this | Prince | then | tree rules | ||
| 2 | harness in a quote | infinitive | dear Dīghāvu | the chariot | then; now | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent chariot=Destination | |||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | dear Dīghāvu not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive · progressive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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