The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 27
The more, Sire, the gods of the Thirty-three become annoyed, offended, indignant, the more does that ogre become handsome and pleasing to look upon and gracious.
Who acts: gods · What happens: become, please, look · To what, where: Sire
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 more | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 become | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Sire | punct |
| 4 | Sire | Sire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 become | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gods | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gods | det |
| 7 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 become | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 three | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 three | det |
| 10 | Thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 three | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Thirty | punct |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 gods | nmod |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 become | advcl |
| 14 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 become | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 offended | punct |
| 16 | offended | offended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 annoyed | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 indignant | punct |
| 18 | indignant | indignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 annoyed | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 does | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 more | det |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 does | advmod |
| 22 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 become | aux |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 ogre | det |
| 24 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 does | obj |
| 25 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 become | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pleasing | cc |
| 28 | pleasing | please | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 handsome | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 look | mark |
| 30 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 pleasing | xcomp |
| 31 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 look | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 gracious | cc |
| 33 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 look | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 become | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | the gods of the Thirty three | Sire | annoyed property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | become | present · do-support | handsome property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | please | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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