The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 85

When he was sixteen years old, he went to Takkasilā, acquired proficiency in all the arts and crafts, and on the death of his father, became established in the kingdom.

Who acts: Benāres, father · What happens: be, go, acquire, become, establish, die · To what, where: Takkasilā, death, kingdom

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 (Benāres, father), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 old	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
4	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 old	obl:unmarked
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	parataxis
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 Takkasilā	case
11	Takkasilā	Takkasilā	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 proficiency	punct
13	acquired	acquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 proficiency	amod
14	proficiency	proficiency	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Takkasilā	appos
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 arts	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 arts	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 arts	det
18	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 proficiency	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 crafts	cc
20	crafts	craft	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 arts	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 death	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 death	cc
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 death	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 death	det
25	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 father	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 father	nmod:poss
28	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 death	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 became	punct
30	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
31	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 became	xcomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 kingdom	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 kingdom	det
34	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 established	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Benāres			year	old property	tree rules
2	go	past	Benāres	Takkasilā	the death of Benāres's father			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to takkasilā=Initial_Location
3	acquire	participle						vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	become	past	Benāres not said here					tree rules
5	establish	participle	Benāres not said here		the kingdom			vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
6	die		Benāres's father					nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 85

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 85