The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 106
The ascetic, for fear of him, became lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, his body strewn with veins.
Who acts: ascetic · What happens: become, dry up, be, fear · To what, where: king
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 (ascetic), 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 | 2 ascetic | det |
| 2 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 became | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fear | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 fear | case |
| 5 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ascetic | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fear | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ascetic | punct |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 became | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dried | punct |
| 12 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 lean | conj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 up | punct |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 dried | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pale | punct |
| 16 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lean | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 yellow | punct |
| 18 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lean | conj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 yellow | mark |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 yellow | advmod |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 yellow | cop |
| 22 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 became | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 body | punct |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 body | nmod:poss |
| 25 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 yellow | conj |
| 26 | strewn | strewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 body | amod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 veins | case |
| 28 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 strewn | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the ascetic | lean property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | dry up | participle | the ascetic not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the ascetic not said here | ever | king's body conj; yellow property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fear | king | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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