The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 33
The more, monks, Sakka king of gods proclaimed his name, the more did that ogre become ill-favored and dwarfish.
Who acts: monks, more, king · What happens: proclaim, do, become, favor, name · To what, where: name, ogre
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 (monks, more, king), 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 | 4 monks | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 monks | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 more | punct |
| 4 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 proclaimed | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 king | punct |
| 6 | Sakka | Sakka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 king | compound |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 proclaimed | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 gods | case |
| 9 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 king | nmod |
| 10 | proclaimed | proclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 proclaimed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 more | det |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 did | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 proclaimed | conj |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 ogre | det |
| 18 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 did | obj |
| 19 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 did | conj |
| 20 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 favored | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 ill | punct |
| 22 | favored | favor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 become | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dwarfish | cc |
| 24 | dwarfish | dwarfish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 favored | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 proclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proclaim | past | the monks | king's name | Sakka king of gods nsubj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past | the more | that ogre | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ogre=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | become | present | the more not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | favor | participle | the more not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | name | king | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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