The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 114
Then Brahmadatta king of Kāsi entered Benāres, caused the ministers of his council to be assembled, and said this: “If, sirs, you were to see Prince Dīghāvu, son of Dīghīti king of Kosala, what would you do to him?”
Who acts: Brahmadatta king, you · What happens: enter, cause, assemble, say, sir, see · To what, where: Benāres, ministers, this, Prince, son, king · 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, you), 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 entered | advmod |
| 2 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kāsi | case |
| 5 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 entered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caused | punct |
| 9 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entered | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ministers | det |
| 11 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 caused | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 council | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 council | nmod:poss |
| 14 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ministers | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 assembled | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 assembled | aux:pass |
| 17 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 council | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entered | conj |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 said | obj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 see | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 see | punct |
| 24 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 sirs | mark |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sirs | punct |
| 26 | sirs | sir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sirs | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 see | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 see | aux |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 see | mark |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 32 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 see | obj |
| 33 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Prince | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 son | punct |
| 35 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 do | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 king | case |
| 37 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 king | compound |
| 38 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 son | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Kosala | case |
| 40 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 king | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 do | punct |
| 42 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 45 do | obj |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 do | aux |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 do | nsubj |
| 45 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 see | parataxis |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 him | case |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 do | obl |
| 48 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 45 do | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | Benāres | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme benāres=Destination | |||
| 2 | cause | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi not said here | the ministers of king's council | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition minister=Patient | ||||
| 3 | assemble | to-infinitive · passive | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi not said here | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi not said here | this | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sir a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | see in a quote | past | you | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | do in a quote | would | you | son of Dīghīti king of Kosala | king | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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