The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 82

Then Vāsuki, king of the snakes, fearing that the whole race of the snakes would be rooted out, begged the griffin to relent, and made the following agreement with him: “O king of birds, every day, on the hill that rises out of the sand of the sea, I will send you a single snake to eat.

Who acts: snakes, Vāsuki, hill · What happens: fear, root out, beg, relent, make, follow · To what, where: whole race, griffin, following agreement, hill, sand, single snake · 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 (snakes, Vāsuki, hill), 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	22 begged	advmod
2	Vāsuki	Vāsuki	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 begged	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 king	punct
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Vāsuki	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 snakes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snakes	det
7	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 king	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fearing	punct
9	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 snakes	acl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 rooted	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 race	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 race	amod
13	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rooted	nsubj:pass
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 snakes	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 snakes	det
16	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 race	nmod
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 rooted	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 rooted	aux:pass
19	rooted	root	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fearing	ccomp
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 rooted	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Vāsuki	punct
22	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 griffin	det
24	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 begged	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 relent	mark
26	relent	relent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 griffin	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 made	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 made	cc
29	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 begged	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 agreement	det
31	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 agreement	amod
32	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 agreement	nmod
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 king	punct
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 king	punct
37	O	o	X	_	38 king	compound
38	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 birds	case
40	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 king	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 day	punct
42	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	43 day	det
43	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 king	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 hill	punct
45	on	on	ADP	_	47 hill	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 hill	det
47	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obl
48	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 rises	nsubj
49	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 hill	acl:relcl
50	out	out	ADP	_	53 sand	case
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 sand	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 sand	det
53	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 rises	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	56 sea	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 sea	det
56	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 sand	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 send	punct
58	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	60 send	nsubj
59	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 send	aux
60	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 begged	conj
61	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	60 send	iobj
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 snake	det
63	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 snake	amod
64	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 send	obj
65	to	to	PART	_	66 eat	mark
66	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 send	advcl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	gerund	the snakes not said here						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	root out	would · passive		the whole race of the snakes					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	beg speech: request	past	Vāsuki		the griffin		then		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent griffin=Recipient
4	relent	to-infinitive	Vāsuki not said here						tree rules
5	make	past	Vāsuki not said here	the following agreement		the hill		with Griffin; O king of birds and every day obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset agreement=Product
6	follow	gerund							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	rise in a quote	present	the hill			the sand of the sea			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sand=Location
8	send in a quote	future	Vāsuki	a single snake	the griffin = griffin				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination snake=Theme
9	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	Vāsuki not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	race		the snakes						nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 82