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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 78

“Yes, your majesty,” said Prince Dīghāvu to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi; and in obedience to his command unharnessed the chariot and sat down on the ground cross-legged.

Who acts: Dīghāvu, king · What happens: say, unharness, sit down, command · To what, where: chariot, obedience, ground · 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, 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

punctdiscoursepunctnmod:possvocativepunctpunctnmod:descnsubjcasecompoundnmodcasenmodpunctcccaseoblcasenmod:possnmodconjdetobjccconjcompound:prtcasedetoblconjpunctroot“PUNCTYesINTJ,PUNCTyourPRONmajestyNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBPrincePROPNDīghāvuPROPNtoADPBrahmadattaPROPNkingNOUNofADPKāsiPROPN;PUNCTandCCONJinADPobedienceNOUNtoADPhisPRONcommandNOUNunharnessedVERBtheDETchariotNOUNandCCONJsatVERBdownADPonADPtheDETgroundNOUNcross-leggedADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_8 saidpunct
2YesyesINTJPolarity=Pos8 saiddiscourse
3,,PUNCT_5 majestypunct
4youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 majestynmod:poss
5majestymajestyNOUNNumber=Sing2 Yesvocative
6,,PUNCT_2 Yespunct
7”"PUNCT_2 Yespunct
8saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing10 Dīghāvunmod:desc
10DīghāvuDīghāvuPROPNNumber=Sing8 saidnsubj
11totoADP_13 kingcase
12BrahmadattaBrahmadattaPROPNNumber=Sing13 kingcompound
13kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing10 Dīghāvunmod
14ofofADP_15 Kāsicase
15KāsiKāsiPROPNNumber=Sing13 kingnmod
16;;PUNCT_23 unharnessedpunct
17andandCCONJ_23 unharnessedcc
18ininADP_19 obediencecase
19obedienceobedienceNOUNNumber=Sing23 unharnessedobl
20totoADP_22 commandcase
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 commandnmod:poss
22commandcommandNOUNNumber=Sing19 obediencenmod
23unharnessedunharnessVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 saidconj
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 chariotdet
25chariotchariotNOUNNumber=Sing23 unharnessedobj
26andandCCONJ_27 satcc
27satsitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 unharnessedconj
28downdownADP_27 satcompound:prt
29ononADP_31 groundcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 grounddet
31groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing27 satobl
32cross-leggedcross-leggedADJDegree=Pos27 satconj
33..PUNCT_8 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastDīghāvu Prince to Brahmadatta king of Kāsivn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2unharnesspastDīghāvu Prince to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi not said herethe chariotobedience to king's commandtree rules
3sit downpastDīghāvu Prince to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi not said herethe groundvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
4commandkingnom 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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