The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 86
When the Brahman asked the dragon for the jewel, Never again did the dragon let himself be seen.
Who acts: Brahman, dragon · What happens: ask, let, see · To what, where: dragon, Brahman
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 (Brahman, dragon), 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 | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Brahman | det |
| 3 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 did | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dragon | det |
| 6 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 jewel | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 jewel | det |
| 9 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 11 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 again | advmod |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 did | advmod |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 let | aux |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dragon | det |
| 15 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 let | nsubj |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 seen | aux:pass |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 let | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Brahman | the dragon | for the jewel | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dragon=Recipient | |||
| 2 | let | past · do-support | the dragon | Brahman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive · passive | Brahman not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |
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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