The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 66
Then the griffin, angry because his mother had been made a slave, asked the following boon of Vishnu: “May the snakes become my food!”
Who acts: griffin, snakes · What happens: make, ask, follow, become · To what, where: mother, boon, food · Speech: someone speaks here
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, snakes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 griffin | det |
| 3 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 angry | punct |
| 5 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 griffin | amod |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 made | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 angry | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 slave | det |
| 13 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 griffin | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boon | det |
| 17 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 boon | case |
| 18 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Vishnu | case |
| 20 | Vishnu | Vishnu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 boon | nmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 become | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 May | punct |
| 23 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 become | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 snakes | det |
| 25 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 become | nsubj |
| 26 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 asked | conj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 food | nmod:poss |
| 28 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 become | xcomp |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | Griffin's mother | a slave obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary slave=Product | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the griffin | the boon of Vishnu | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boon=Recipient | |||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | become in a quote | present | the snakes | my food | may | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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