The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 58
The older ascetic saw the younger ascetic lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, his body strewn with veins.
Who acts: older ascetic · What happens: see, dry up, be · To what, where: younger ascetic lean
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 (older ascetic), 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 | 3 ascetic | det |
| 2 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 ascetic | amod |
| 3 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lean | det |
| 6 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 lean | amod |
| 7 | ascetic | ascetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lean | amod |
| 8 | lean | lean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dried | punct |
| 10 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lean | acl |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 up | punct |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 dried | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pale | punct |
| 14 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 yellow | punct |
| 16 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pale | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 yellow | mark |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 yellow | advmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 yellow | cop |
| 20 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 body | punct |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 body | nmod:poss |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 yellow | conj |
| 24 | strewn | strewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 body | amod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 veins | case |
| 26 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 strewn | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the older ascetic | the younger ascetic lean | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lean=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | dry up | participle | the younger ascetic lean not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the older ascetic not said here | ever | Jewel'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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