The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 104
When it was time for him to go, out of affection for the ascetic he would lay aside his human form, encircle the ascetic with his coils, and embrace him, holding his huge hood over his head.
Who acts: hermitage, king · What happens: be, go, lay, encircle, embrace, hold · To what, where: time, affection, ascetic, king, huge hood, head
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 (hermitage, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 When | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 affection | punct |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 affection | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 affection | case |
| 12 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 ascetic | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ascetic | det |
| 15 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 lay | aux |
| 18 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 affection | acl:relcl |
| 19 | aside | aside | ADP | _ | 22 form | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 form | nmod:poss |
| 21 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 form | amod |
| 22 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 encircle | punct |
| 24 | encircle | encircle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 lay | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ascetic | det |
| 26 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 encircle | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 coils | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 coils | nmod:poss |
| 29 | coils | coil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 ascetic | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 embrace | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 embrace | cc |
| 32 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 lay | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 embrace | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 holding | punct |
| 35 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 embrace | advcl |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 hood | nmod:poss |
| 37 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 hood | amod |
| 38 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 holding | obj |
| 39 | over | over | ADP | _ | 41 head | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 head | nmod:poss |
| 41 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 holding | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 When | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | hermitage | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | king | affection | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme out affection=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lay | would | king | affection not said here | for the ascetic; aside king's human form | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent affection=Result for ascetic=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | encircle | infinitive | king not said here | the ascetic | with king's coils | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ascetic=Destination with coil=Theme | |||
| 5 | embrace | infinitive | king not said here | king | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | hold | gerund | king not said here | king's huge hood | king's head | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hood=Theme over head=Location | |||
| 8 | form | king | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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