The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 46
For the second and the third time Dīghīti king of Kosala spoke thus to Prince Dīghāvu, and those men spoke thus to Dīghīti king of Kosala.
Who acts: third time, second, men · What happens: king, speak · To what, where: Prince · 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 (third time, second, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 second | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 second | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 king | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | nsubj |
| 8 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 king | compound |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 second | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Kosala | case |
| 11 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 king | nmod |
| 12 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 12 spoke | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Prince | case |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 spoke | obl |
| 16 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Prince | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spoke | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spoke | cc |
| 19 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 men | det |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 spoke | nsubj |
| 21 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spoke | parataxis |
| 22 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 21 spoke | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 king | case |
| 24 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 king | compound |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spoke | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Kosala | case |
| 27 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 king | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | king | the third time | of Kosala | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | the second and Dīghīti king | Prince | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to prince=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | that men | to Dīghīti king of Kosala; thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-Agent |
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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