The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 13
And when that unborn child had reached maturity, the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala brought forth a son, and they called his name Dīghāvu.
Who acts: consort, rinsings, king · What happens: reach, bring, call, name · To what, where: unborn child, son, name · 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 (consort, rinsings, king), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 brought | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 reached | mark |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 child | det |
| 4 | unborn | unborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 child | amod |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reached | aux |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 brought | advcl |
| 8 | maturity | maturity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reached | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 consort | det |
| 11 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 king | compound |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 consort | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Kosala | case |
| 16 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 king | nmod |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 brought | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 son | det |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 called | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 called | nsubj |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 name | nmod:poss |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 called | obj |
| 27 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 name | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect · passive | that unborn child | maturity obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary maturity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala | a son | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument son=Destination | |||
| 3 | call | past | rinsings = rinsing | king's name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | name | king | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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