The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 125
The charioteer of the king of Kosala replied: “Such-and-such is our king’s practice of morality.”
Who acts: charioteer · What happens: reply, be · To what, where: Such such 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 charioteer | det |
| 2 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 king | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 charioteer | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Kosala | case |
| 7 | Kosala | Kosala | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 king | nmod |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 practice | punct |
| 11 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 practice | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 practice | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 practice | cc |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 practice | amod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 practice | cop |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 king | nmod:poss |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 practice | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 king | case |
| 20 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 morality | case |
| 22 | morality | morality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 practice | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 practice | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 practice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the charioteer of the king of Kosala | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | our king's Such such practice | of morality; our 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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