The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 104
That body of thine, which would suffer even from the torch of the sun’s rays,--how can it endure the agony of being devoured by the griffin?
Who acts: body, torch, griffin, sun · What happens: suffer, endure, devour, ray · To what, where: torch, agony, body
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body, torch, griffin, sun), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 body | det |
| 2 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 suffer | mark |
| 4 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 suffer | nmod:poss |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 suffer | punct |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 suffer | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 suffer | aux |
| 8 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 body | acl |
| 9 | even | even | ADV | _ | 12 torch | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 torch | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 torch | det |
| 12 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 suffer | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rays | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sun | det |
| 15 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rays | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 sun | case |
| 17 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 torch | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 endure | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 endure | punct |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 endure | advmod |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 endure | aux |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 endure | nsubj |
| 23 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 suffer | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 agony | det |
| 25 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 endure | obj |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 28 devoured | mark |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 devoured | aux:pass |
| 28 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 agony | acl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 griffin | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 griffin | det |
| 31 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 devoured | obl |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 body | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | would | that body | the torch of the sun's rays | thine nmod:poss | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer torch=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | endure | can | torch | the agony | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme agony=Circumstance | ||||
| 3 | devour | gerund · passive | the griffin | the agony not said here | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | ray | the sun | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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