The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 52
When he saw this, the following thought occurred to him: “Without doubt that man is a kinsman or blood-relative of Dīghīti king of Kosala.
Who acts: king, following thought, man · What happens: see, follow, occur, be · To what, where: this, king, kinsman
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 (king, following thought, man), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 occurred | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 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 | 9 occurred | nsubj |
| 9 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 occurred | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 kinsman | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 kinsman | punct |
| 14 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 15 doubt | case |
| 15 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kinsman | obl |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kinsman | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 kinsman | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 kinsman | det |
| 20 | kinsman | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 occurred | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 relative | cc |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 relative | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 blood | punct |
| 24 | relative | relative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kinsman | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 king | case |
| 26 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 king | compound |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 relative | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Kosala | case |
| 29 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 king | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | king | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | occur | past | the following thought | king | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | that man | a kinsman or blood relative of Dīghīti king of Kosala | without doubt; blood relative of Dīghīti king of Kosala conj | tree rules |
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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