The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 86
And the griffin, the king of the birds, devours each day the snake which Vāsuki, king of the birds, sends to him to eat.
Who acts: griffin, Vāsuki · What happens: devour, send, eat · To what, where: snake, 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 (griffin, Vāsuki), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 devours | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 griffin | det |
| 3 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 devours | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 king | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 griffin | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 birds | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 birds | det |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 king | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 griffin | punct |
| 11 | devours | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 devours | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 snake | det |
| 15 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 devours | obj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 sends | obj |
| 17 | Vāsuki | Vāsuki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 sends | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 king | punct |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Vāsuki | appos |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 birds | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 birds | det |
| 22 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 king | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Vāsuki | punct |
| 24 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 snake | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sends | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 eat | mark |
| 28 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 sends | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 devours | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | devour | present | the griffin | the snake | day | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Patient | |||
| 2 | send | present | Vāsuki | the snake | Griffin | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme to he=Destination | |||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | Vāsuki not said here | vn 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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