The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 97
Then Prince Dīghāvu, stroking the head of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi with his left hand, and drawing his sword with his right hand, said this to Brahmadatta king of Kāsi: “I, your majesty, am Prince Dīghāvu, son of Dīghīti king of Kosala.
Who acts: Dīghāvu · What happens: stroke, draw, say, be · To what, where: head, sword, this, Brahmadatta king, Prince · 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), 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 | 3 Dīghāvu | advmod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Dīghāvu | nmod:desc |
| 3 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dīghāvu | punct |
| 5 | stroking | stroke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Dīghāvu | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stroking | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 king | compound |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 head | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Kāsi | case |
| 12 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 king | nmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hand | amod |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stroking | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drawing | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drawing | cc |
| 19 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 stroking | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sword | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drawing | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 hand | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hand | amod |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drawing | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Dīghāvu | punct |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 said | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 king | case |
| 30 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 king | compound |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 said | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Kāsi | case |
| 33 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 king | nmod |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 36 I | punct |
| 35 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 I | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 Prince | nsubj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 majesty | punct |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 39 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 I | vocative |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 I | punct |
| 41 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 Prince | cop |
| 42 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 said | ccomp |
| 43 | Dīghāvu | Dīghāvu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Prince | flat |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 son | punct |
| 45 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Prince | appos |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 king | case |
| 47 | Dīghīti | Dīghīti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 king | compound |
| 48 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 son | nmod |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 Kosala | case |
| 50 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 king | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroke | gerund | Dīghāvu Prince not said here | the head of Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | with Dīghāvu's left hand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer with hand=Instrument | |||
| 2 | draw | gerund | Dīghāvu Prince not said here | Dīghāvu's sword | with Dīghāvu's right hand | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Dīghāvu Prince | this | Brahmadatta king of Kāsi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to king=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Dīghāvu Prince = dīghāvu | Prince | son of Dīghīti king of Kosala appos | tree rules |
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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