The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 79
And Brahmadatta king of Kāsi lay down, placing his head in Prince Dīghāvu’s lap.
Who acts: Brahmadatta king · What happens: lie down, place · To what, where: head, lap
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 | _ | 6 lay | cc |
| 2 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | compound |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kāsi | case |
| 5 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 placing | punct |
| 9 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 lay | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placing | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 lap | case |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Dīghāvu | nmod:desc |
| 14 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lap | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Dīghāvu | case |
| 16 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 placing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | place | gerund | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi not said here | king's head | Dīghāvu Prince's lap | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in lap=Destination |
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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