The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 74
Thereupon Brahmadatta king of Kāsi mounted the chariot; Prince Dīghāvu drove the chariot.
Who acts: Brahmadatta king, Prince · What happens: mount, drive · To what, where: chariot
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, Prince), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 6 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mounted | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kāsi | case |
| 5 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 chariot | det |
| 8 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mounted | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 drove | punct |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 drove | nsubj |
| 11 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Prince | flat |
| 12 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 mounted | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chariot | det |
| 14 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drove | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | the chariot | thereupon property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Patient | |||
| 2 | drive | past | Prince | the chariot | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent chariot=Location |
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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