The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 11
Accordingly Brahmadatta king of Kāsi ordered his men: “Do as the Brahman who is my house-priest has said.”
Who acts: Brahmadatta king, Brahman · What happens: order, do, be · To what, where: men · 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, 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 6 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kāsi | case |
| 5 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 men | nmod:poss |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ordered | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Do | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Do | punct |
| 11 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 ordered | parataxis |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 Brahman | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Brahman | det |
| 14 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Do | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 said | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 priest | nmod:poss |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 priest | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 house | punct |
| 20 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | aux |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 Brahman | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Do | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | king's men | accordingly property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do in a quote | infinitive | as the Brahman | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present · perfect | the Brahman | my house priest nsubj; say property | 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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