The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 106
Now at this time a king of Kosala named Mallika, a righteous ruler, was also trying to find out whether he had any faults.
Who acts: king · What happens: name, try, find out, have · To what, where: faults · 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 (king), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 named | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 named | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 named | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Kosala | case |
| 8 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 9 | named | name | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Mallika | Mallika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 named | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ruler | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 ruler | det |
| 13 | righteous | righteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ruler | amod |
| 14 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Mallika | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 trying | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 trying | aux |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 trying | advmod |
| 18 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 named | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 find | mark |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 trying | xcomp |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 find | compound:prt |
| 22 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 24 had | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | ccomp |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 faults | det |
| 26 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 had | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past | a king of Kosala | now; time | Mallika xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | try | past · progressive | a king of Kosala not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | find out not said to happen | to-infinitive | a king of Kosala not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | past | king | any faults | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Patient |
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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