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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 38

Seeing the magical power of the drum, he gave the second ascetic the gem, took the drum, and in the same way as before caused his head also to be cut off.

Who acts: man, head · What happens: see, give, take, cause, cut off · To what, where: magical power, second ascetic, drum, head, same way

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, head), 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

advcldetamodobjcasedetnmodpunctnsubjdetamodobjdetobjpunctconjdetobjpunctcccasedetamodoblccfixedconjnmod:possobjadvmodmarkaux:passxcompcompound:prtpunctrootSeeingVERBtheDETmagicalADJpowerNOUNofADPtheDETdrumNOUN,PUNCThePRONgaveVERBtheDETsecondADJasceticNOUNtheDETgemNOUN,PUNCTtookVERBtheDETdrumNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJinADPtheDETsameADJwayNOUNasADVbeforeSCONJcausedVERBhisPRONheadNOUNalsoADVtoPARTbeAUXcutVERBoffADP.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SeeingseeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 gaveadvcl
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 powerdet
3magicalmagicalADJDegree=Pos4 poweramod
4powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing1 Seeingobj
5ofofADP_7 drumcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 drumdet
7drumdrumNOUNNumber=Sing4 powernmod
8,,PUNCT_1 Seeingpunct
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 gavensubj
10gavegiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 asceticdet
12secondsecondADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord13 asceticamod
13asceticasceticNOUNNumber=Sing10 gaveobj
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 gemdet
15gemgemNOUNNumber=Sing10 gaveobj
16,,PUNCT_17 tookpunct
17tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 gaveconj
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 drumdet
19drumdrumNOUNNumber=Sing17 tookobj
20,,PUNCT_28 causedpunct
21andandCCONJ_28 causedcc
22ininADP_25 waycase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 waydet
24samesameADJDegree=Pos25 wayamod
25waywayNOUNNumber=Sing28 causedobl
26asasADVExtPos=CCONJ28 causedcc
27beforebeforeSCONJ_26 asfixed
28causedcauseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 tookconj
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 headnmod:poss
30headheadNOUNNumber=Sing28 causedobj
31alsoalsoADV_34 cutadvmod
32totoPART_34 cutmark
33bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf34 cutaux:pass
34cutcutVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass28 causedxcomp
35offoffADP_34 cutcompound:prt
36..PUNCT_10 gavepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seegerundman not said herethe magical power of the drumvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus
2givepastmanthe second asceticthe gem objvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ascetic=Recipient gem=Theme
3takepastman not said herethe drumvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Theme
4causepastman not said hereman's headthe same waytree rules
5cut offto-infinitive · passiveman's head not said herevn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»

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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