The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 25
Thereupon Brahmadatta king of Kāsi ordered his men: “Now then, bring Dīghīti king of Kosala with his consort before me.”
Who acts: Brahmadatta king · What happens: order, bring · To what, where: men, Dīghīti king · 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 6 ordered | advmod |
| 2 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kāsi | case |
| 5 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 men | nmod:poss |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ordered | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 11 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 then | advmod |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 bring | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 then | punct |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ordered | ccomp |
| 15 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 king | compound |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Kosala | case |
| 18 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 king | nmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 consort | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 consort | nmod:poss |
| 21 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obl |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | king's men | thereupon property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | bring in a quote | infinitive | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi not said here | Dīghīti king of Kosala | before barber; then; now | with king's consort | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme before i=Destination |
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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