The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 38
At these words those men said this to Dīghīti king of Kosala: “This Dīghīti king of Kosala is stark mad, and talks gibberish.
Who acts: men, Dīghīti king · What happens: say, be, talk · To what, where: this, Dīghīti king, words, gibberish · 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 (men, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | obl |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 men | det |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 king | compound |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Kosala | case |
| 12 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 king | nmod |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 mad | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 mad | punct |
| 15 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 king | det |
| 16 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 king | compound |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mad | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Kosala | case |
| 19 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 king | nmod |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 mad | cop |
| 21 | stark | stark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mad | amod |
| 22 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 talks | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 talks | cc |
| 25 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 mad | parataxis |
| 26 | gibberish | gibberish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 talks | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | that men | this | Dīghīti king of Kosala | this words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to king=Recipient | ||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | this Dīghīti king of Kosala | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | talk in a quote | present | gibberish | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent gibberish=Patient |
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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