The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 136
So saying, the charioteer of the king of Benāres uttered the second stanza:
Who acts: charioteer · What happens: say, utter · To what, where: second stanza · 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 uttered | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 charioteer | det |
| 5 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 uttered | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 charioteer | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Benāres | case |
| 10 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 king | nmod |
| 11 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stanza | det |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 stanza | amod |
| 14 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 uttered | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | the charioteer of the king of Benāres not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | the charioteer of the king of Benāres | the second stanza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic |
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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