The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 72
Three times did the younger ascetic beg the jewel of Jewel-neck the dragon-king, and three times did Jewel-neck the dragon-king depart.
What happens: do · To what, where: younger ascetic beg, Jewel neck
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: 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beg | det |
| 5 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 beg | amod |
| 6 | ascetic | ascetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beg | amod |
| 7 | beg | beg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 jewel | det |
| 9 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 neck | case |
| 11 | Jewel | Jewel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 neck | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jewel | punct |
| 13 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 jewel | nmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 15 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 king | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 dragon | punct |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 neck | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 did | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 did | cc |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 times | nummod |
| 21 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 did | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 23 | Jewel | Jewel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 neck | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Jewel | punct |
| 25 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 did | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 depart | det |
| 27 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 king | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 dragon | punct |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 depart | compound |
| 30 | depart | depart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 did | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the younger ascetic beg | time | the jewel of Jewel neck obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | past | Jewel neck | time | the king depart obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Eventuality |
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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