The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 81

When the moon was in conjunction with a certain constellation, the Brahman would look up at the sky and recite that charm, and straightway the Rain of the Seven Jewels would rain from the sky.

Who acts: moon, Brahman, straightway · What happens: be, look up, recite, rain · To what, where: conjunction, charm, sky

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 (moon, Brahman, straightway), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	6 conjunction	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 moon	det
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conjunction	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 conjunction	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 conjunction	case
6	conjunction	conjunction	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 look	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 constellation	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 constellation	det
9	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 constellation	amod
10	constellation	constellation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 conjunction	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 conjunction	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Brahman	det
13	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 look	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 look	aux
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 look	compound:prt
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 sky	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sky	det
19	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 look	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 recite	cc
21	recite	recite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 look	conj
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 charm	det
23	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 recite	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 straightway	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 straightway	cc
26	straightway	straightway	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rain	nsubj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Rain	det
28	Rain	Rain	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 straightway	appos
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 Jewels	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Jewels	det
31	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 Jewels	nummod
32	Jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 straightway	nmod
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 rain	aux
34	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 look	parataxis
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 sky	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sky	det
37	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 rain	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the moon		conjunction	with a certain constellation	tree rules
2	look up	would	the Brahman			at the sky	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme
3	recite	infinitive	the Brahman not said here	that charm			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Theme
4	rain	would	straightway of the Seven Jewels		the sky		tree rules

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 8, sentence 81

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 81