The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 108
The latter asked him: “Why are you lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, your body strewn with veins?”
Who acts: latter, king, body · What happens: ask, be, dry up · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (latter, king, body), 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 latter | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 lean | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 lean | punct |
| 7 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 lean | advmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lean | cop |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 lean | nsubj |
| 10 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 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 | 18 yellow | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 strewn | punct |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 body | nmod:poss |
| 25 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 strewn | nsubj |
| 26 | strewn | strewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lean | conj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 veins | case |
| 28 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 strewn | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 lean | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the latter | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | king | lean property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dry up in a quote | participle | king not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | king not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be in a quote | king not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | king not said here | ever | yellow property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | be in a quote | your body | with veins | tree rules |
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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