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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 20

Seating himself on the fig tree, he thought: “This boar, become an air-voyager by the magical power of this gem, lives here, I suppose.

Who acts: man, boar · What happens: seat, think, become, live, suppose · To what, where: man, fig tree, air voyager · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, boar), 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

advclobjcasedetcompoundoblpunctnsubjpunctpunctdetnsubjpunctccompdetcompoundpunctxcompcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodpunctconjadvmodpunctnsubjparataxispunctrootSeatingVERBhimselfPRONonADPtheDETfigNOUNtreeNOUN,PUNCThePRONthoughtVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTThisDETboarNOUN,PUNCTbecomeVERBanDETairNOUN-PUNCTvoyagerNOUNbyADPtheDETmagicalADJpowerNOUNofADPthisDETgemNOUN,PUNCTlivesVERBhereADV,PUNCTIPRONsupposeVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SeatingseatVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part9 thoughtadvcl
2himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes1 Seatingobj
3ononADP_6 treecase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 treedet
5figfigNOUNNumber=Sing6 treecompound
6treetreeNOUNNumber=Sing1 Seatingobl
7,,PUNCT_1 Seatingpunct
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 thoughtnsubj
9thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10::PUNCT_15 becomepunct
11“"PUNCT_15 becomepunct
12ThisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem13 boardet
13boarboarNOUNNumber=Sing15 becomensubj
14,,PUNCT_13 boarpunct
15becomebecomeVERBVerbForm=Inf9 thoughtccomp
16anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 voyagerdet
17airairNOUNNumber=Sing19 voyagercompound
18--PUNCT_17 airpunct
19voyagervoyagerNOUNNumber=Sing15 becomexcomp
20bybyADP_23 powercase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 powerdet
22magicalmagicalADJDegree=Pos23 poweramod
23powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing15 becomeobl
24ofofADP_26 gemcase
25thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem26 gemdet
26gemgemNOUNNumber=Sing23 powernmod
27,,PUNCT_28 livespunct
28livesliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin15 becomeconj
29herehereADVPronType=Dem28 livesadvmod
30,,PUNCT_32 supposepunct
31IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs32 supposensubj
32supposesupposeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 livesparataxis
33..PUNCT_9 thoughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seatgerundman not said heremanthe fig treevn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
2think speech: otherpastmanvn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3become in a quoteinfinitivethis boara air voyagerby the magical power of this gemvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4live in a quotepresentthis boar not said hereherevn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5suppose in a quotepresentmanvn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: 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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