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title: The ascetic, for fear of him, became lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The ascetic, for fear of him, became lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, his body strewn with veins. Who acts: ascetic. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 106

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The ascetic, for fear of him, became lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, his body strewn with veins.

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**Who acts:** ascetic · **What happens:** become, dry up, be, fear · **To what, where:** king

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ascetic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74064:11:113
# text = The ascetic, for fear of him, became lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, his body strewn with veins.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the ascetic |  |  |  |  | lean *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **dry up** | participle | the ascetic *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | the ascetic *not said here* |  |  |  | ever | king's body *conj*; yellow *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fear** |  |  | king |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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