The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 158
His parents, hearing these words of the Brahmans, in selecting a name for the prince, gave him the name Prince Five-weapons.
Who acts: parents · What happens: hear, select, give, word · To what, where: words, name, Buddha, Brahmans
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 (parents), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 parents | nmod:poss |
| 2 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hearing | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 parents | punct |
| 4 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 gave | advcl |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hearing | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Brahmans | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Brahmans | det |
| 9 | Brahmans | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 words | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 selecting | punct |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 selecting | mark |
| 12 | selecting | select | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 hearing | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 name | det |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 selecting | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 prince | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 selecting | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | iobj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 name | det |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 name | appos |
| 24 | Five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 weapons | nummod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 Five | punct |
| 26 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Prince | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | Buddha's parents | this words of the Brahmans | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | select | gerund | Buddha's parents not said here | a name | for the prince | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past | the name | Buddha | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient name=Theme | ||||
| 4 | word | the Brahmans | nom word «communication transitive»: of=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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