The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 122
“Sirs, this is Prince Dīghāvu, son of Dīghīti king of Kosala; it is not permissible to do anything to him.
Who acts: this, it · What happens: be, not be, do · To what, where: Prince, anything, king, Sirs
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 (this, it), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sirs | punct |
| 2 | Sirs | sir | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Prince | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 Prince | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Prince | cop |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sirs | nmod |
| 7 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Prince | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sirs | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 king | compound |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Kosala | case |
| 14 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 king | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 permissible | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 permissible | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 permissible | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 permissible | advmod |
| 19 | permissible | permissible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Sirs | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 permissible | xcomp |
| 22 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 do | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 do | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sirs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | it | permissible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | anything | king | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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