The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 86
Then to Prince Dīghāvu occurred the following thought: “My father said to me in the hour of death: ‘Dear Dīghāvu, do not look long!
Who acts: Dīghāvu, father · What happens: occur, follow, say, not look · To what, where: following thought, Dīghāvu · 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, father), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 occurred | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 5 occurred | mark |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Dīghāvu | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 occurred | nsubj |
| 5 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thought | det |
| 7 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 thought | amod |
| 8 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 occurred | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 occurred | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hour | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hour | det |
| 18 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hour | nmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 Dīghāvu | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 Dīghāvu | punct |
| 23 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Dīghāvu | amod |
| 24 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 occurred | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 look | punct |
| 26 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 look | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 look | advmod |
| 28 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 Dīghāvu | parataxis |
| 29 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 look | xcomp |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 Dīghāvu | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | Dīghāvu Prince | the following thought | then | Dear Dīghāvu parataxis | tree rules | ||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | My father | Dīghāvu Prince to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi = dīghāvu | hour | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | not look in a quote | infinitive · do-support | long property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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