The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 76
Now when he had gone a long way, Brahmadatta king of Kāsi said this to Prince Dīghāvu: “Now then, young man, unharness the chariot.
Who acts: king, Brahmadatta king · What happens: go, say · To what, where: long way, this, Prince · 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 (king, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 gone | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 gone | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gone | aux |
| 5 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 king | punct |
| 10 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 king | compound |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Kāsi | case |
| 13 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 king | nmod |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | acl:relcl |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 said | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Prince | case |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Prince | flat |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 man | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 man | punct |
| 21 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 then | advmod |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 man | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 man | punct |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gone | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 unharness | punct |
| 27 | unharness | unharness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 man | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 chariot | det |
| 29 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 man | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | king | a long way | now | young man the chariot and unharness obl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | this | Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to prince=Recipient |
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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