The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 56
Now Jewel-neck, a dragon-king, came out of the Ganges, approached the younger ascetic, and having approached, encircled the younger ascetic seven times with his coils and rose and spread his huge hood over his head.
Who acts: Jewel, having · What happens: come out, approach, have, encircle, rise, spread · To what, where: Ganges, younger ascetic, huge hood, head
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 (Jewel, having), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 came | advmod |
| 2 | Jewel | Jewel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jewel | punct |
| 4 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jewel | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 king | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 king | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 dragon | punct |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jewel | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jewel | punct |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 Ganges | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Ganges | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Ganges | det |
| 15 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 approached | punct |
| 17 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ascetic | det |
| 19 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 ascetic | amod |
| 20 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 approached | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 encircled | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 encircled | cc |
| 23 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 encircled | csubj |
| 24 | approached | approach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 having | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 having | punct |
| 26 | encircled | encircle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ascetic | det |
| 28 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 ascetic | amod |
| 29 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 encircled | obj |
| 30 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 times | nummod |
| 31 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 encircled | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 coils | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 coils | nmod:poss |
| 34 | coils | coil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 encircled | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 rose | cc |
| 36 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 encircled | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 spread | cc |
| 38 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 rose | conj |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 hood | nmod:poss |
| 40 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 hood | amod |
| 41 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 spread | obj |
| 42 | over | over | ADP | _ | 44 head | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 head | nmod:poss |
| 44 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 spread | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | Jewel | the Ganges | now | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient ganges=Result | |||
| 2 | approach | past | Jewel not said here | the younger ascetic | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ascetic=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | approach | participle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | encircle | past | having | the younger ascetic | time | with Jewel's coils | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ascetic=Destination with coil=Theme | ||
| 6 | rise | past | having not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | spread | past | having not said here | Jewel's huge hood | Jewel's head | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hood=Theme over head=Destination |
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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