The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 24

_ A man who has taken a vow to remain single, and to devote himself to fasting, bodily torture, and meditation as a means of escape from the horrors of repeated existences.

Who acts: man, a · What happens: take, remain, devote, fast, mean, repeat · To what, where: vow, man, bodily torture

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 (man, a), 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 taken	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	aux
6	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 vow	det
8	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 remain	mark
10	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 vow	acl
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 remain	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 devote	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 devote	cc
14	to	to	PART	_	15 devote	mark
15	devote	devote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 taken	conj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 devote	obj
17	to	to	SCONJ	_	18 fasting	mark
18	fasting	fast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 devote	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 torture	punct
20	bodily	bodily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 torture	amod
21	torture	torture	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fasting	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 meditation	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 meditation	cc
24	meditation	meditation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taken	obl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 means	mark
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 means	nsubj
27	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 taken	advcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 escape	case
29	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 means	obl
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 horrors	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 horrors	det
32	horrors	horror	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 escape	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 existences	case
34	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 existences	amod
35	existences	existence	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 horrors	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	present · perfect	a man	a vow	meditation obl; who nsubj	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Theme
2	remain	to-infinitive	a man not said here	a vow not said here	single property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	devote	to-infinitive	a man not said here	man		vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	fast	gerund	a man not said here	bodily torture		tree rules
5	mean	present	a		of escape from the horrors of repeated existences	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	repeat	participle				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 24

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 24