The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 66
“Yes, your majesty,” said Prince Dīghāvu to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi; and in obedience to his command, desiring to win his favor, sang and played the lute with charming voice.
Who acts: Dīghāvu, command · What happens: say, desire, win, sing, play, command · To what, where: favor, obedience, lute · 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 (Dīghāvu, command), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 majesty | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Yes | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Dīghāvu | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 king | compound |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Dīghāvu | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Kāsi | case |
| 15 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 king | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 sang | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 sang | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 obedience | case |
| 19 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sang | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 command | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 command | nmod:poss |
| 22 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 obedience | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 desiring | punct |
| 24 | desiring | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 command | acl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 win | mark |
| 26 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 desiring | xcomp |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 favor | nmod:poss |
| 28 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 win | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 obedience | punct |
| 30 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 played | cc |
| 32 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 sang | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 lute | det |
| 34 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 played | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 voice | case |
| 36 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 voice | compound |
| 37 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 played | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Dīghāvu Prince to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | desire | gerund | Dīghāvu's command not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | win not said to happen | to-infinitive | Dīghāvu's command not said here | Dīghāvu's favor | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favor=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | Dīghāvu Prince to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi not said here | obedience to Dīghāvu's command | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in obedience=Location | ||||
| 5 | play | past | Dīghāvu Prince to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi not said here | the lute | with charming voice | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent lute=Theme with voice=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | command | Dīghāvu | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | favor | Dīghāvu | nom favor «act transitive»: poss=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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