The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 94
Thereupon Prince Dīghāvu said this to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi: “Why, your majesty, did you rise so suddenly, frightened, agitated, alarmed, terrified?”
Who acts: Prince, majesty · What happens: say, rise, frighten, agitate, alarm · To what, where: this · 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 (Prince, majesty), 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 | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | flat |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 king | compound |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Kāsi | case |
| 10 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 king | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 rise | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 rise | punct |
| 13 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 rise | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 majesty | punct |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rise | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 majesty | punct |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 rise | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 rise | nsubj |
| 20 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 suddenly | advmod |
| 22 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 20 rise | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 frightened | punct |
| 24 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 rise | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 agitated | punct |
| 26 | agitated | agitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 frightened | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 alarmed | punct |
| 28 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 agitated | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 terrified | punct |
| 30 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rise | conj |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 rise | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Prince | this | to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi; thereupon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rise in a quote | past · do-support | your majesty | you nsubj; suddenly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | frighten in a quote | participle | your majesty not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | agitate in a quote | participle | your majesty not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | alarm in a quote | participle | your majesty not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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