The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 18
Thereupon, as the fruit of the merit which the wise boar had acquired, he was transformed into a sage, and the monkey into a sage likewise.
What happens: acquire, transform · To what, where: wise boar, boar, sage
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: 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 18 transformed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thereupon | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 fruit | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fruit | det |
| 5 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 transformed | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 merit | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 merit | det |
| 8 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fruit | nmod |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 acquired | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 boar | det |
| 11 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boar | amod |
| 12 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 acquired | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 acquired | aux |
| 14 | acquired | acquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 merit | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fruit | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 transformed | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 transformed | aux:pass |
| 18 | transformed | transform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 sage | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sage | det |
| 21 | sage | sage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 transformed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 monkey | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 monkey | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 monkey | det |
| 25 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sage | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 sage | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 sage | det |
| 28 | sage | sage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 transformed | obl |
| 29 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 18 transformed | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 transformed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | acquire | past · perfect · passive | the wise boar | the merit obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | transform | past · passive | boar | into a sage and the monkey result; as the fruit of the merit; into a sage result; likewise, thereupon property | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into sage=Result |
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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