The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 135
Seeing that he was suffering more than ever from jaundice, he said: “How comes it that you are suffering more than ever from jaundice?”
Who acts: Nor, you · What happens: see, suffer, say, come · To what, where: more, jaundice · 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 (Nor, you), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 suffering | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 suffering | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suffering | aux |
| 5 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Seeing | advcl |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 suffering | obj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 jaundice | case |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 jaundice | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 jaundice | case |
| 10 | jaundice | jaundice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 more | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 comes | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 comes | punct |
| 16 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 comes | advmod |
| 17 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 suffering | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 comes | obj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 suffering | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 suffering | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 suffering | aux |
| 22 | suffering | suffer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 suffering | obj |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 jaundice | case |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 jaundice | advmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 jaundice | case |
| 27 | jaundice | jaundice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 more | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 suffering | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 suffering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Nor not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | suffer | past · progressive | Nor | more than jaundice | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Nor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present | you not said here | jaundice | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | suffer in a quote | present · progressive | you | more than jaundice | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
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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