The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 64
When the griffin heard these words, he went to the sea of milk and displayed his mighty prowess in order to obtain the drink of immortality.
Who acts: griffin · What happens: hear, go, display, obtain · To what, where: words, sea, mighty prowess, order, drink
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 (griffin), 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 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 griffin | det |
| 3 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 milk | case |
| 14 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sea | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 displayed | cc |
| 16 | displayed | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 prowess | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prowess | amod |
| 19 | prowess | prowess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 displayed | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 order | case |
| 21 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 displayed | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 obtain | mark |
| 23 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 displayed | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 drink | det |
| 25 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 obtain | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 immortality | case |
| 27 | immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drink | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the griffin | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Griffin | the sea of milk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | display | past | Griffin not said here | Griffin's mighty prowess | order | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prowess=Theme | |||
| 4 | obtain | to-infinitive | Griffin not said here | the drink of immortality | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset drink=Theme |
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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