The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 1
The illustration to Story 17, _Dragon Jewel-neck_, represents the king of the dragons encircling the ascetic with his coils.
Who acts: illustration, dragons · What happens: story, represent, encircle · To what, where: 17, king, ascetic
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (illustration, dragons), 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 | 14 represents | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Story | case |
| 4 | Story | story | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 illustration | acl |
| 5 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 Story | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Dragon | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Dragon | compound |
| 8 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 illustration | appos |
| 9 | Jewel | Jewel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Dragon | flat |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 neck | punct |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Dragon | appos |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 11 neck | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 illustration | punct |
| 14 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 represents | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 dragons | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dragons | det |
| 19 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 king | nmod |
| 20 | encircling | encircle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 dragons | acl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ascetic | det |
| 22 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 encircling | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 coils | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 coils | nmod:poss |
| 25 | coils | coil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 encircling | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 represents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | story | infinitive | the illustration not said here | 17 | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | represent | present | the illustration | the king of the dragons | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot king=Theme | ||||
| 3 | encircle | gerund | the dragons not said here | the ascetic | with illustration's coils | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ascetic=Destination with coil=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/3/1/