The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 43
In olden times, in this very city of Sāvatthi, lived a house-mistress named Vedehikā.
What happens: live, name · To what, where: house mistress
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: 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 | 12 lived | 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 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mistress | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mistress | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 house | punct |
| 16 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lived | obj |
| 17 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 mistress | acl |
| 18 | Vedehikā | Vedehikā | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 named | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a house mistress | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme mistress=Location | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a house mistress not said here | Vedehikā xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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