The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 134
The illustration to Story 11, _The anger-eating ogre_, represents the ogre seated on the Yellowstone throne of Sakka (Indra), king of the gods, in the heaven of the Thirty-three gods, thereby arousing the indignation and anger of the gods, of whom two are shown in the drawing.
Who acts: illustration, gods · What happens: eat, represent, seat, arouse, show, anger · To what, where: ogre, Yellowstone throne, indignation, two
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (illustration, gods), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 illustration | det |
| 2 | illustration | illustration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 represents | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 11 | case |
| 4 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 11 | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 illustration | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ogre | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 ogre | punct |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ogre | det |
| 9 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eating | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 anger | punct |
| 11 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 ogre | amod |
| 12 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 illustration | appos |
| 13 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 ogre | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 illustration | punct |
| 15 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ogre | det |
| 17 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 represents | obj |
| 18 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ogre | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 throne | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 throne | det |
| 21 | Yellowstone | Yellowstone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 throne | compound |
| 22 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seated | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Sakka | case |
| 24 | Sakka | Sakka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 throne | nmod |
| 25 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 Indra | punct |
| 26 | Indra | Indra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Sakka | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 Indra | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 king | punct |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ogre | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 gods | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 gods | det |
| 32 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 king | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 heaven | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 heaven | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 heaven | det |
| 36 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 represents | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 gods | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 gods | det |
| 39 | Thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 three | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 Thirty | punct |
| 41 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 gods | nummod |
| 42 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 heaven | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 arousing | punct |
| 44 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 45 arousing | advmod |
| 45 | arousing | arouse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 represents | advcl |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 indignation | det |
| 47 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 arousing | obj |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 anger | cc |
| 49 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 indignation | conj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 gods | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 gods | det |
| 52 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 anger | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 shown | punct |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 whom | case |
| 55 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 58 shown | obl |
| 56 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 58 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 57 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 shown | aux:pass |
| 58 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 arousing | conj |
| 59 | in | in | ADP | _ | 61 drawing | case |
| 60 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 drawing | det |
| 61 | drawing | drawing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 shown | obl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 represents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund | anger compound | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | represent | present | the illustration to 11 Story | the ogre | the heaven of the three gods conj | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ogre=Theme | |||
| 3 | seat | participle | the ogre not said here | the Yellowstone throne of Sakka | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 4 | arouse | gerund | the illustration to 11 Story not said here | the indignation and anger of the gods | thereby property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus indignation=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | show | present · passive | two | in the drawing; whom obl | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: subject=Patient in drawing=Topic | ||||
| 6 | anger | the gods | nom anger «feeling intransitive»: of=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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