The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 59

Seeing, he said this to the younger ascetic: “Why are you lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, your body strewn with veins?”

Who acts: Jewel, you, body · What happens: see, say, be, dry up · To what, where: this · 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 (Jewel, you, body), 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	4 said	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 said	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 ascetic	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ascetic	det
8	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 ascetic	amod
9	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 lean	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 lean	punct
12	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	15 lean	advmod
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lean	cop
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 lean	nsubj
15	lean	lean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dried	punct
17	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 lean	conj
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 up	punct
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 dried	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pale	punct
21	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lean	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 yellow	punct
23	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lean	conj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 yellow	mark
25	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 yellow	advmod
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 yellow	cop
27	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 yellow	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 strewn	punct
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 body	nmod:poss
30	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 strewn	nsubj
31	strewn	strewn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lean	conj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 veins	case
33	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 strewn	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 lean	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 lean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	Jewel not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: ask	past	Jewel	this		to the younger ascetic	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	you			lean property	tree rules
4	dry up in a quote	participle	you not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	be in a quote		you not said here				tree rules
6	be in a quote		you not said here				tree rules
7	is in a quote	past	you not said here		ever	yellow property	tree rules
8	be in a quote		your body			with veins	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 59

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 59