The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 71
Now Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Now then, young man, harness the chariot; I wish to go a-hunting.”
Who acts: Brahmadatta king, young man · What happens: say, harness, wish, go · To what, where: this, Prince, chariot, hunting · 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 (Brahmadatta king, young 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 2 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kāsi | case |
| 5 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Prince | case |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 10 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Prince | flat |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 harness | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 harness | punct |
| 13 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 then | advmod |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 harness | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 harness | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 19 | harness | harness | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chariot | det |
| 21 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 harness | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 wish | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 wish | nsubj |
| 24 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 harness | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 go | mark |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 wish | xcomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hunting | det |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 a | punct |
| 29 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 harness | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 harness | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | this | Prince | now | tree rules | ||
| 2 | harness in a quote | infinitive | young man | the chariot | then; now | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent chariot=Destination | |||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi = king | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi = king not said here | a hunting | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=Theme |
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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