The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 124
Accordingly the charioteer of the king of Benāres asked the charioteer of the king of Kosala: “What is your king’s practice of morality like?”
Who acts: charioteer · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: charioteer, practice · 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 (charioteer), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 9 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 charioteer | det |
| 3 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charioteer | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Benāres | case |
| 8 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 charioteer | det |
| 11 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 charioteer | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Kosala | case |
| 16 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 king | nmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 practice | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 practice | punct |
| 19 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 practice | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 practice | cop |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 king | nmod:poss |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 practice | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 king | case |
| 24 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 morality | case |
| 26 | morality | morality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 practice | nmod |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 morality | nmod |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 morality | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 practice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the charioteer of the king of Benāres | the charioteer of the king of Kosala | accordingly property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent charioteer=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | your king's practice | of morality; What nsubj; your king nmod:poss | 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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