The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 2
The Brahman who was the house-priest of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi saw the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala approaching even from afar.
Who acts: Brahman, Dīghīti king · What happens: be, see, approach · To what, where: house priest, consort
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 (Brahman, Dīghīti 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Brahman | det |
| 2 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 priest | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 priest | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 priest | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 priest | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 house | punct |
| 8 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Brahman | acl:relcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 king | compound |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 priest | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Kāsi | case |
| 13 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 king | nmod |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 consort | det |
| 16 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 king | case |
| 18 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 king | compound |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 consort | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Kosala | case |
| 21 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 king | nmod |
| 22 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 king | acl |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 afar | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 afar | case |
| 25 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 approaching | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Brahman | the house priest | of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | past | the Brahman | the consort of Dīghīti king of Kosala | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer consort=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | approach | gerund | Dīghīti king of Kosala not said here | afar property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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