The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 106
In olden times, in this very city of Sāvatthi, there was a certain king.
Who acts: certain king · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain king), 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 | _ | 3 times | case |
| 2 | olden | olden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 times | amod |
| 3 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 was | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 city | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 city | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 city | advmod |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 times | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Sāvatthi | case |
| 10 | Sāvatthi | Sāvatthi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 city | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 times | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 15 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 king | amod |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a certain king | there | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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