The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 68
Now Jewel-neck the dragon-king came out of the Ganges river, approached the younger ascetic, and having approached, stood aside.
Who acts: Jewel neck · What happens: come out, approach, stand · To what, where: Ganges river, younger ascetic
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 neck), 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 | 9 came | advmod |
| 2 | Jewel | Jewel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 neck | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jewel | punct |
| 4 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 dragon | punct |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 river | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 river | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 river | det |
| 13 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 river | compound |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 approached | punct |
| 16 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ascetic | det |
| 18 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 ascetic | amod |
| 19 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 approached | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 approached | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 approached | cc |
| 22 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 approached | aux |
| 23 | approached | approach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 came | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stood | punct |
| 25 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | conj |
| 26 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 25 stood | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | Jewel neck | the Ganges river | now | the dragon king nsubj | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient river=Result | ||
| 2 | approach | past | Jewel neck not said here | the younger ascetic | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ascetic=Theme | ||||
| 3 | approach | gerund · perfect | Jewel neck not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | Jewel neck not said here | aside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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