The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 148
In times past, when Brahmadatta ruled at Benāres, four Brahman brothers in the kingdom of Kāsi adopted the life of ascetics, and building a row of leaf-huts in the Himālaya region, took up their abode there.
Who acts: Brahmadatta, four Brahman brothers · What happens: rule, adopt, build, take up · To what, where: Benāres, life, row, Himālaya region, abode
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 (Brahmadatta, four Brahman brothers), 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 | _ | 13 brothers | punct |
| 11 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 brothers | nummod |
| 12 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 brothers | compound |
| 13 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 adopted | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 kingdom | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 kingdom | det |
| 16 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 brothers | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Kāsi | case |
| 18 | Kāsi | Kāsi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 kingdom | nmod |
| 19 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ruled | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 life | det |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 adopted | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ascetics | case |
| 23 | ascetics | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 life | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 building | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 building | cc |
| 26 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 ruled | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 row | det |
| 28 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 building | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 huts | case |
| 30 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 huts | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 leaf | punct |
| 32 | huts | hut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 row | nmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 region | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 region | det |
| 35 | Himālaya | Himālaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 region | compound |
| 36 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 building | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 took | punct |
| 38 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ruled | conj |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 took | compound:prt |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 abode | nmod:poss |
| 41 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 took | obj |
| 42 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 took | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | 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 | adopt | past | four Brahman brothers in the kingdom of Kāsi | the life of ascetics | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | build | gerund | Brahmadatta not said here | a row of leaf huts | the Himālaya region | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset row=Product | |||
| 4 | take up | past | Brahmadatta not said here | brothers's abode | there | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=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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