The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 81
When the older ascetic saw the younger ascetic altered in appearance, he inquired the reason.
Who acts: older ascetic, king · What happens: see, alter, inquire · To what, where: younger ascetic, appearance, reason
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, king), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ascetic | det |
| 3 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 ascetic | amod |
| 4 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 inquired | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ascetic | det |
| 7 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 ascetic | amod |
| 8 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | altered | alter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ascetic | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 appearance | case |
| 11 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 altered | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 inquired | nsubj |
| 14 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 reason | det |
| 16 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 inquired | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the older ascetic | the younger ascetic | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ascetic=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | alter | participle | the younger ascetic not said here | appearance | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | king | the reason | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient |
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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