The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 102
The dragon-king and the younger ascetic greeted each other in a cordial manner, and became fast friends and inseparable companions.
Who acts: dragon king · What happens: greet, become · To what, where: each, cordial manner, fast friends
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon king), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 2 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 dragon | punct |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 greeted | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ascetic | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ascetic | det |
| 7 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 ascetic | amod |
| 8 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | conj |
| 9 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 9 greeted | obj |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 manner | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 manner | det |
| 14 | cordial | cordial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 manner | amod |
| 15 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 greeted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 became | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 became | cc |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 greeted | conj |
| 19 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 friends | amod |
| 20 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 became | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 companions | cc |
| 22 | inseparable | inseparable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 companions | amod |
| 23 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 friends | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 greeted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | greet speech: greet | past | the dragon king and the younger ascetic | each | a cordial manner | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | past | the dragon king and the younger ascetic not said here | fast friends and inseparable companions | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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