The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 101
The Brahman surveyed the constellations and reflected: “The conjunction of the moon which causes the Rain of Riches is at hand.
Who acts: Brahman, conjunction · What happens: survey, reflect, cause, be, rain · To what, where: constellations, Rain, hand, Riches
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brahman, conjunction), 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 Brahman | det |
| 2 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 surveyed | nsubj |
| 3 | surveyed | survey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 constellations | det |
| 5 | constellations | constellation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 surveyed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 reflected | cc |
| 7 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 surveyed | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 hand | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 hand | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 conjunction | det |
| 11 | conjunction | conjunction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hand | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 moon | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moon | det |
| 14 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conjunction | nmod |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 causes | nsubj |
| 16 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 conjunction | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Rain | det |
| 18 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 causes | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Riches | case |
| 20 | Riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 Rain | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 hand | cop |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 hand | case |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reflected | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surveyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survey | past | the Brahman | the constellations | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constellation=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reflect | past | the Brahman not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cause in a quote | present | the conjunction of the moon | the Rain of Riches | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rain=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the conjunction of the moon | hand | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | rain in a quote | Riches | nom rain «phenomenon 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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