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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 85

So every day, on the hill that rises out of the sand of the sea, Vāsuki, king of the snakes, sends to the griffin, the king of the birds, a single snake to eat.

Who acts: hill, day · What happens: rise, send, eat · To what, where: sand, 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 (hill, day), 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

advmoddetnsubjpunctcasedetnmodnsubjacl:relclcasecasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctappospunctapposcasedetnmodpunctcasedetoblpunctdetapposcasedetnmodpunctdetamodconjmarkaclpunctrootSoADVeveryDETdayNOUN,PUNCTonADPtheDEThillNOUNthatPRONrisesVERBoutADPofADPtheDETsandNOUNofADPtheDETseaNOUN,PUNCTVāsukiPROPN,PUNCTkingNOUNofADPtheDETsnakesNOUN,PUNCTsendsVERBtoADPtheDETgriffinNOUN,PUNCTtheDETkingNOUNofADPtheDETbirdsNOUN,PUNCTaDETsingleADJsnakeNOUNtoPARTeatVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_25 sendsadvmod
2everyeveryDETPronType=Tot3 daydet
3daydayNOUNNumber=Sing25 sendsnsubj
4,,PUNCT_7 hillpunct
5ononADP_7 hillcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 hilldet
7hillhillNOUNNumber=Sing3 daynmod
8thatthatPRONPronType=Rel9 risesnsubj
9risesriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 hillacl:relcl
10outoutADP_13 sandcase
11ofofADP_13 sandcase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 sanddet
13sandsandNOUNNumber=Sing9 risesobl
14ofofADP_16 seacase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 seadet
16seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing13 sandnmod
17,,PUNCT_18 Vāsukipunct
18VāsukiVāsukiPROPNNumber=Sing16 seaappos
19,,PUNCT_20 kingpunct
20kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing7 hillappos
21ofofADP_23 snakescase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 snakesdet
23snakessnakeNOUNNumber=Plur20 kingnmod
24,,PUNCT_3 daypunct
25sendssendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
26totoADP_28 griffincase
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 griffindet
28griffingriffinNOUNNumber=Sing25 sendsobl
29,,PUNCT_31 kingpunct
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 kingdet
31kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing28 griffinappos
32ofofADP_34 birdscase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 birdsdet
34birdsbirdNOUNNumber=Plur31 kingnmod
35,,PUNCT_38 snakepunct
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 snakedet
37singlesingleADJDegree=Pos38 snakeamod
38snakesnakeNOUNNumber=Sing28 griffinconj
39totoPART_40 eatmark
40eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf38 snakeacl
41..PUNCT_25 sendspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1risepresentthe hillthe sand of the seavn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out sand=Location
2sendpresentevery day on the hillthe griffin and a single snakevn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to griffin=Destination
3eatto-infinitiveevery day on the hill not said herevn eat-39.1-1 «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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