The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 124

Then Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “When, dear Dīghāvu, your father said to you in the hour of death: ‘Dear Dīghāvu, do not look long!

Who acts: Brahmadatta king, dear Dīghāvu · What happens: say, not look · To what, where: this, Prince, Dear Dīghāvu · 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), 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	_	16 Dīghāvu	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Dīghāvu	punct
13	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 Dīghāvu	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Dīghāvu	punct
15	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Dīghāvu	amod
16	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 father	punct
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Dīghāvu	appos
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 said	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 hour	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 hour	det
25	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 said	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 death	case
27	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hour	nmod
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 look	punct
29	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 look	punct
30	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Dīghāvu	amod
31	Dīghāvu	Dīghāvu	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 look	obl:unmarked
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Dīghāvu	punct
33	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	35 look	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 look	advmod
35	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	conj
36	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 look	xcomp
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	Brahmadatta king of Kāsi	this	Prince	then		tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	dear Dīghāvu		Prince	hour		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
3	not look in a quote	infinitive · do-support	dear Dīghāvu not said here	Dear Dīghāvu			long property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 124

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 124