The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 82
In times past, when Brahmadatta ruled at Benāres, the Future Buddha received a new existence as the child of his chief consort.
Who acts: Brahmadatta, Future Buddha · What happens: rule, receive · To what, where: Benāres, new existence
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 (Brahmadatta, Future Buddha), 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 | _ | 2 times | case |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ruled | obl |
| 3 | past | past | ADV | _ | 2 times | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 times | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 ruled | advmod |
| 6 | Brahmadatta | Brahmadatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | nsubj |
| 7 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Benāres | case |
| 9 | Benāres | Benāres | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 received | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Buddha | det |
| 12 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Buddha | compound |
| 13 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 received | nsubj |
| 14 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Benāres | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 existence | det |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 existence | amod |
| 17 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 received | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 child | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 received | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 consort | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 consort | nmod:poss |
| 23 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 consort | amod |
| 24 | consort | consort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 child | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | Brahmadatta | Benāres | time | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | receive | past | the Future Buddha | a new existence | as the child of Buddha's chief consort | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent existence=Theme |
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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