The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 61
For fear of him I am lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, my body strewn with veins.”
Who acts: I, body · What happens: be, dry up, fear · To what, where: Jewel
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 (I, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 fear | case |
| 2 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lean | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fear | nmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 lean | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lean | cop |
| 7 | lean | lean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dried | punct |
| 9 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 lean | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 up | punct |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 dried | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pale | punct |
| 13 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lean | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 yellow | punct |
| 15 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lean | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 yellow | mark |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 yellow | advmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 yellow | cop |
| 19 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 yellow | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 strewn | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 body | nmod:poss |
| 22 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 strewn | nsubj |
| 23 | strewn | strewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lean | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 veins | case |
| 25 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 strewn | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lean | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 lean | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | for fear of Jewel; lean property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dry up | participle | I not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | be | I not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | I not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | I not said here | ever | yellow property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | be | my body | with veins | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | fear | Jewel | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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