The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 95
“Right here, young man, Prince Dīghāvu, son of Dīghīti king of Kosala, fell upon me with his sword in a dream.
What happens: fall · To what, where: dream
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
| 2 | Right | right | ADV | _ | 3 here | advmod |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 here | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Dīghāvu | punct |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Dīghāvu | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 here | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Dīghāvu | appos |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 king | compound |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Kosala | case |
| 16 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 king | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 here | advcl |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 fell | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 sword | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sword | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 dream | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 dream | det |
| 26 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in a quote | past | a dream | upon Prince; with king's sword | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon i=Location |
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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