The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 29
Now to Prince Dīghāvu occurred the following thought: “It is a long time since I have seen my mother and father.
Who acts: Dīghāvu, thought, men · What happens: occur, follow, be, see · To what, where: following thought, long time, mother
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 (Dīghāvu, thought, men), 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 | 5 occurred | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 5 occurred | mark |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Dīghāvu | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 occurred | nsubj |
| 5 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thought | det |
| 7 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 thought | amod |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 occurred | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 11 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 time | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 occurred | obl |
| 16 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 19 seen | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 time | acl:relcl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mother | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seen | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 father | cc |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mother | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | Dīghāvu Prince | the following thought | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | thought | a long time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present · perfect | that men = man | my mother and father | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mother=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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