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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 1

Thereupon Brahmadatta king of Kāsi exclaimed: “O how wonderful, O how marvelous, that this Prince Dīghāvu should understand in its fulness a matter which his father expressed so briefly!”

Who acts: Brahmadatta king, Dīghāvu, father · What happens: exclaim, understand, express · To what, where: matter, fulness · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. 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, 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

advmodcompoundnsubjcasenmodpunctpunctdiscourseadvmodparataxispunctdiscourseadvmodconjpunctmarknsubjnmod:descnsubjauxparataxiscasenmod:possobldetoblobjnmod:possnsubjacl:relcladvmodadvmodpunctpunctrootThereuponADVBrahmadattaPROPNkingNOUNofADPKāsiPROPNexclaimedVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTOINTJhowADVwonderfulADJ,PUNCTOINTJhowADVmarvelousADJ,PUNCTthatSCONJthisPRONPrincePROPNDīghāvuPROPNshouldAUXunderstandVERBinADPitsPRONfulnessNOUNaDETmatterNOUNwhichPRONhisPRONfatherNOUNexpressedVERBsoADVbrieflyADV!PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThereuponthereuponADV_6 exclaimedadvmod
2BrahmadattaBrahmadattaPROPNNumber=Sing3 kingcompound
3kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing6 exclaimednsubj
4ofofADP_5 Kāsicase
5KāsiKāsiPROPNNumber=Sing3 kingnmod
6exclaimedexclaimVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7::PUNCT_11 wonderfulpunct
8“"PUNCT_11 wonderfulpunct
9OoINTJ_11 wonderfuldiscourse
10howhowADVPronType=Int11 wonderfuladvmod
11wonderfulwonderfulADJDegree=Pos6 exclaimedparataxis
12,,PUNCT_15 marvelouspunct
13OoINTJ_15 marvelousdiscourse
14howhowADVPronType=Int15 marvelousadvmod
15marvelousmarvelousADJDegree=Pos11 wonderfulconj
16,,PUNCT_22 understandpunct
17thatthatSCONJ_22 understandmark
18thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem20 Dīghāvunsubj
19PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing20 Dīghāvunmod:desc
20DīghāvuDīghāvuPROPNNumber=Sing22 understandnsubj
21shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin22 understandaux
22understandunderstandVERBVerbForm=Inf6 exclaimedparataxis
23ininADP_25 fulnesscase
24itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 fulnessnmod:poss
25fulnessfulnessNOUNNumber=Sing22 understandobl
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 matterdet
27mattermatterNOUNNumber=Sing22 understandobl
28whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel31 expressedobj
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 fathernmod:poss
30fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing31 expressednsubj
31expressedexpressVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 matteracl:relcl
32sosoADV_33 brieflyadvmod
33brieflybrieflyADV_31 expressedadvmod
34!!PUNCT_22 understandpunct
35”"PUNCT_6 exclaimedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1exclaim speech: expresspastBrahmadatta king of Kāsithereupon propertyvn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2understand in a quoteshouldDīghāvu this Princea matterits fulnessvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3express in a quotepastDīghāvu's fathera matterbriefly propertyvn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme

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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