The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 69
And Prince Dīghāvu rose in advance of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi, retired after him, obeyed his every command, conducted himself in a pleasing manner, spoke in a friendly manner.
Who acts: Dīghāvu, Brahmadatta king · What happens: rise, retire, obey, conduct, speak, advance · To what, where: advance, Kāsi, command, Dīghāvu, pleasing manner, friendly manner · 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, Brahmadatta 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rose | cc |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Dīghāvu | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 advance | case |
| 6 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 king | compound |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 advance | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Kāsi | case |
| 11 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 king | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 retired | punct |
| 13 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Kāsi | acl |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 retired | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 obeyed | punct |
| 17 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 command | nmod:poss |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 command | det |
| 20 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 obeyed | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 conducted | punct |
| 22 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 obeyed | conj |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 conducted | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 manner | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 manner | det |
| 26 | pleasing | pleasing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 manner | amod |
| 27 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 conducted | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 spoke | punct |
| 29 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 conducted | parataxis |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 manner | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 manner | det |
| 32 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 manner | amod |
| 33 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 spoke | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Dīghāvu Prince | advance of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in advance=Location | ||||
| 2 | retire | participle | Kāsi not said here | after Dīghāvu | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | obey | past | Dīghāvu Prince not said here | Dīghāvu's command | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | ||||
| 4 | conduct | past | Dīghāvu Prince not said here | Dīghāvu | a pleasing manner | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in manner=Destination | |||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past | a friendly manner | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | advance | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | nom advance «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | command | Dīghāvu | nom command «communication 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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