The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 58
But you, because in a former state of existence also you wrought evil, have been reborn as an ogre, cruel, red-handed, feeding on the flesh and blood of others.
Who acts: you · What happens: evil, reborn, hand, feed · To what, where: you, former state
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 (you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 reborn | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 reborn | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reborn | punct |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 reborn | mark |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 state | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 state | det |
| 7 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 state | amod |
| 8 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reborn | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 existence | case |
| 10 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 state | nmod |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 evil | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 evil | nsubj |
| 13 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 evil | amod |
| 14 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 state | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 state | punct |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 reborn | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 reborn | aux:pass |
| 18 | reborn | reborn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 ogre | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 ogre | det |
| 21 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reborn | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cruel | punct |
| 23 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ogre | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 handed | punct |
| 25 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 handed | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 red | punct |
| 27 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 cruel | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 feeding | punct |
| 29 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 handed | advcl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 flesh | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 flesh | det |
| 32 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 feeding | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 blood | cc |
| 34 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 flesh | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 others | case |
| 36 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 blood | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 reborn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | evil | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | reborn | present · perfect · passive | you | a former state of existence | as a ogre | tree rules | |||
| 3 | hand | participle | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | feed | gerund | on the flesh and blood of others | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on flesh=Patient |
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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