The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 69
The griffin agreed, and elated by the boon of Vishnu, he went to the snakes with the vessel containing the drink of immortality.
Who acts: griffin · What happens: agree, elate, go, contain · To what, where: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 griffin | det |
| 2 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 elated | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 elated | cc |
| 6 | elated | elate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 agreed | xcomp |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 boon | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boon | det |
| 9 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 elated | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Vishnu | case |
| 11 | Vishnu | Vishnu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 boon | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 snakes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 snakes | det |
| 17 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 vessel | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 vessel | det |
| 20 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 21 | containing | contain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 went | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 drink | det |
| 23 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 containing | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 immortality | case |
| 25 | immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drink | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the griffin | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | elate not said to happen | participle | the griffin not said here | by the boon of Vishnu | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Griffin | to the snakes; with the vessel | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to snake=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | contain | gerund | Griffin not said here | the drink of immortality | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot 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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