The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 12
But afterwards, through the finding of his crest-jewel, his kinsfolk and friends effected his deliverance from the power of the griffin, and a goddess sprinkled him with a potion, whereupon he arose more glorious than before, with all his limbs made whole again.
Who acts: kinsfolk, goddess, griffin, limbs · What happens: affect, sprinkle, arise, make, find, deliver · To what, where: deliverance, finding, griffin, crest jewel
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kinsfolk, goddess, griffin, limbs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 effected | cc |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 17 effected | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 afterwards | punct |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 finding | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 finding | det |
| 6 | finding | finding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 effected | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 jewel | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 jewel | nmod:poss |
| 9 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jewel | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 crest | punct |
| 11 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finding | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 finding | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kinsfolk | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kinsfolk | kinsfolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 effected | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 friends | cc |
| 16 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 kinsfolk | conj |
| 17 | effected | affect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 19 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 effected | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 power | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 power | det |
| 22 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 effected | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 griffin | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 griffin | det |
| 25 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 power | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sprinkled | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 sprinkled | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 goddess | det |
| 29 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sprinkled | nsubj |
| 30 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 effected | parataxis |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 sprinkled | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 potion | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 potion | det |
| 34 | potion | potion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sprinkled | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 arose | punct |
| 36 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 arose | advmod |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 arose | nsubj |
| 38 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 sprinkled | conj |
| 39 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 glorious | advmod |
| 40 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 arose | xcomp |
| 41 | than | than | ADP | _ | 42 before | case |
| 42 | before | before | ADV | _ | 40 glorious | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 made | punct |
| 44 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 48 made | mark |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 limbs | det:predet |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 47 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 made | nsubj |
| 48 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 arose | conj |
| 49 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 made | xcomp |
| 50 | again | again | ADV | _ | 48 made | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 effected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | past | griffin's kinsfolk and friends | griffin's deliverance | the finding of griffin's crest jewel | from the power of the griffin; afterwards property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus deliverance=Experiencer | ||
| 2 | sprinkle | past | a goddess | griffin | with a potion | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with potion=Theme | |||
| 3 | arise | past | griffin | glorious, whereupon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | griffin's limbs | again | whole property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||
| 5 | find | griffin's crest jewel | nom finding «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | deliver | griffin | nom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=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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