The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 15
Now to Dīghīti king of Kosala occurred the following thought: “This Brahmadatta king of Kāsi has done us much injury.
Who acts: Brahmadatta king · What happens: occur, follow, do · To what, where: following thought, much injury, us · 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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 occurred | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 king | case |
| 3 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 king | compound |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 occurred | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Kosala | case |
| 6 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 king | nmod |
| 7 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thought | det |
| 9 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 thought | amod |
| 10 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 occurred | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 occurred | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 done | punct |
| 13 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 king | det |
| 14 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 king | compound |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 done | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Kāsi | case |
| 17 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 king | nmod |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 occurred | parataxis |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 done | iobj |
| 21 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 injury | amod |
| 22 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 done | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | the following thought | now | to Dīghīti king of Kosala | tree rules | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · perfect | this Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | much injury | us | 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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