The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 112
In this chariot sits the lord of the realm of Benāres, the mighty king Brahmadatta!”
What happens: sit · To what, where: lord, chariot
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 chariot | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 chariot | det |
| 3 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obl |
| 4 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lord | det |
| 6 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 realm | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 realm | det |
| 9 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lord | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Benāres | case |
| 11 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 realm | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 king | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 14 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 king | amod |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lord | appos |
| 16 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 king | appos |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 Brahmadatta | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | the lord of the realm of Benāres | this chariot | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent lord=Theme in chariot=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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