The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 105
How comes it that Fate and the king of the snakes were able to discover thee, the only son of ill-starred me, though the world of the snakes is wide?”
Who acts: world, Fate · What happens: come, be, discover, star · To what, where: agony, thee
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 (world, Fate), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 comes | advmod |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 wide | advcl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 comes | obj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 able | mark |
| 5 | Fate | Fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 able | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 king | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Fate | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 snakes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 snakes | det |
| 11 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 king | nmod |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 able | cop |
| 13 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 comes | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 discover | mark |
| 15 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 able | xcomp |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 discover | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 son | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 son | det |
| 19 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 son | amod |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 me | mark |
| 22 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 starred | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ill | punct |
| 24 | starred | star | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 me | amod |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 son | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wide | punct |
| 27 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 34 wide | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 world | det |
| 29 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 wide | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 snakes | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 snakes | det |
| 32 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 world | nmod |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 wide | cop |
| 34 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 34 wide | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 wide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the world of the snakes not said here | agony | the only son me parataxis | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | Fate and the king of the snakes | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | discover | to-infinitive | Fate and the king of the snakes not said here | thee | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Topic | ||||
| 4 | star | participle | vn captain-29.8-1-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | the world of the snakes | wide property | tree rules |
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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