The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 40

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

Who acts: man, head · What happens: see, give, take, cause, cut off · To what, where: magical power, youngest ascetic, bowl, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 gave	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 power	det
3	magical	magical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 power	amod
4	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seeing	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bowl	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bowl	det
7	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 power	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 curds	case
9	curds	curd	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bowl	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gave	nsubj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ascetic	det
14	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 ascetic	amod
15	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gem	det
17	gem	gem	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 took	punct
19	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bowl	det
21	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 took	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 curds	case
23	curds	curd	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bowl	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 caused	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 caused	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 way	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 way	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 way	amod
29	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 caused	obl
30	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	32 caused	cc
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	30 as	fixed
32	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 took	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 caused	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	37 cut	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 cut	aux:pass
37	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 caused	xcomp
38	off	off	ADP	_	37 cut	compound:prt
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	man not said here	the magical power of the bowl of curds			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus
2	give	past	man	the youngest ascetic		the gem obj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ascetic=Recipient gem=Theme
3	take	past	man not said here	the bowl of curds			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme
4	cause	past	man not said here	man's head	the same way		tree rules
5	cut off	to-infinitive · passive	man's head not said here				vn 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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 40

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 40