The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 79
In times past, when Brahmadatta ruled at Benāres, there lived in a certain little village a certain Brahman who knew a charm called the Vedabbha charm.
Who acts: Brahmadatta, certain Brahman, charm · What happens: rule, live, know, call · To what, where: Benāres, certain little village, charm, Vedabbha charm · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Brahmadatta, certain Brahman, charm), 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 | _ | 12 lived | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 lived | expl |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ruled | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 village | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 village | det |
| 15 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 village | amod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 village | amod |
| 17 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Brahman | det |
| 19 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Brahman | amod |
| 20 | Brahman | brahman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 village | appos |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 knew | nsubj |
| 22 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Brahman | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 charm | det |
| 24 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 knew | obj |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 charm | acl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 charm | det |
| 27 | Vedabbha | Vedabbha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 charm | compound |
| 28 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 called | obj |
| 29 | . | . | 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 | live | past | Brahmadatta not said here | a certain little village; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location | ||||
| 3 | know | past | a certain Brahman | a charm | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer charm=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | a charm not said here | the Vedabbha charm | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent charm=Recipient |
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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