The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 127
The dragon-king, still remaining in the water, refused the ascetic, reciting these two stanzas:
Who acts: dragon king · What happens: remain, refuse, recite · To what, where: water, ascetic, two stanzas
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 | 12 refused | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 remaining | punct |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 remaining | advmod |
| 7 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 king | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remaining | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 king | punct |
| 12 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ascetic | det |
| 14 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refused | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reciting | punct |
| 16 | reciting | recite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 refused | advcl |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 stanzas | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 stanzas | nummod |
| 19 | stanzas | stanza | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 reciting | obj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | gerund | the dragon king not said here | the water | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | |||
| 2 | refuse | past | the dragon king | the ascetic | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ascetic=Theme | ||||
| 3 | recite | gerund | the dragon king not said here | this two stanzas | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stanza=Theme |
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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