The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 7

And the sea, churned by the wind, seemed with the eyes of its bright-flashing jewels to be gazing in wonder and astonishment at the greatness of his courage and the depth of his compassion.

Who acts: sea · What happens: churn, seem, gaze · To what, where: sea

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 (sea), 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	_	10 seemed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seemed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 churned	punct
5	churned	churn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sea	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 wind	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 churned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 eyes	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eyes	det
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seemed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	19 jewels	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 jewels	nmod:poss
16	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 flashing	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 bright	punct
18	flashing	flashing	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 jewels	compound
19	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eyes	nmod
20	to	to	PART	_	22 gazing	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 gazing	aux
22	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 seemed	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 wonder	case
24	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gazing	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 astonishment	cc
26	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wonder	conj
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 greatness	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 greatness	det
29	greatness	greatness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gazing	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 courage	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 courage	nmod:poss
32	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 greatness	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 depth	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 depth	det
35	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 courage	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 compassion	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 compassion	nmod:poss
38	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 depth	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	churn	participle		the sea not said here	by the wind	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	seem	past	the sea		with the eyes of wind's flashing jewels	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	gaze	to-infinitive · progressive	the sea not said here		at the greatness of sea's courage and the depth of sea's compassion; in wonder and astonishment	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wonder=Theme

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 7

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 7