The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 70
And in no very long time Brahmadatta king of Kāsi appointed Prince Dīghāvu to a highly confidential position.
Who acts: Brahmadatta king · What happens: appoint · To what, where: Dīghāvu
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 (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 | _ | 11 appointed | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 time | det |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appointed | obl |
| 7 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 king | compound |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appointed | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Kāsi | case |
| 10 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 king | nmod |
| 11 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Dīghāvu | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 appointed | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 position | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 position | det |
| 16 | highly | highly | ADV | _ | 17 confidential | advmod |
| 17 | confidential | confidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 position | amod |
| 18 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 appointed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | Dīghāvu Prince | time | to a confidential position | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent dīghāvu=Theme to position=Attribute |
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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