The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 40
For although he has been caught by an ogre like me, he appears neither to tremble nor to quake!
Who acts: ogre · What happens: catch, appear, tremble, quake · To what, where: ogre
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 caught | mark |
| 2 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 6 caught | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 caught | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 caught | aux:pass |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 appears | advcl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 ogre | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ogre | det |
| 9 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 ogre | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 appears | nsubj |
| 14 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tremble | advcl |
| 15 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 17 tremble | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 tremble | mark |
| 17 | tremble | tremble | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 quake | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 quake | mark |
| 20 | quake | quake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 tremble | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 tremble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present · perfect · passive | a ogre like me | ogre | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | ogre | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tremble | to-infinitive | neither property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | quake | to-infinitive | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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