The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 74
Now the snakes were terrified by reason of the boon which Vishnu had granted to the griffin, and at once agreed to the bargain.
Who acts: snakes · What happens: be, grant, agree · To what, where: boon, griffin
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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 terrified | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snakes | det |
| 3 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 terrified | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrified | cop |
| 5 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 reason | case |
| 7 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 terrified | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 boon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boon | det |
| 10 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reason | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | Vishnu | Vishnu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 granted | aux |
| 14 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 boon | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 griffin | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 griffin | det |
| 17 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 granted | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 agreed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 agreed | cc |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 agreed | obl |
| 22 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 terrified | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 bargain | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bargain | det |
| 25 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 agreed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the snakes | now | by reason of the boon; terrified property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grant | past · perfect · passive | the boon | the griffin | Vishnu nsubj:pass | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to griffin=Goal | |||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | participle | the snakes not said here | to the bargain | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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