The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 133

And that ascetic, because he saw no more that dragon-king so fair to see, became more than ever lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, his body strewn with veins.

Who acts: Nor, more · What happens: see, become, lean, dry up, be · To what, where: more, ascetic

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 (Nor, more), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 ascetic	cc
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 ascetic	det
3	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 saw	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ascetic	acl:relcl
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 saw	obj
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 king	det
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 king	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 dragon	punct
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 more	obl
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 fair	advmod
15	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 king	amod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fair	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 became	punct
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	parataxis
20	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 became	xcomp
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 lean	mark
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 lean	advmod
23	lean	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 more	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dried	punct
25	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 became	conj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 up	punct
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 dried	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pale	punct
29	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dried	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 yellow	punct
31	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 yellow	csubj
32	as	as	ADP	_	33 ever	case
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 yellow	obl
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 yellow	cop
35	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 pale	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 body	punct
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 body	nmod:poss
38	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 yellow	conj
39	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 body	amod
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 veins	case
41	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 strewn	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ascetic	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Nor	more that dragon king			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
2	see	to-infinitive	more that dragon king not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	become	past				more property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	lean	infinitive			ever		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dry up	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	is	past				Nor's body conj; yellow property	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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 133

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 133