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title: And that ascetic, because he saw no more that dragon-king so fair to… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And that ascetic, because he saw no more that dragon-king so fair to see, became more than ever lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, his body strewn with veins. Who acts: Nor, more. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with its dependency t
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 133

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And that ascetic, because he saw no more that dragon-king so fair to see, became more than ever lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, his body strewn with veins.

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**Who acts:** Nor, more · **What happens:** see, become, lean, dry up, be · **To what, where:** more, ascetic

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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 (Nor, more), 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:pg74064:11:141
# text = And that ascetic, because he saw no more that dragon-king so fair to see, became more than ever lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, his body strewn with veins.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	no	no	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	obj	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
11	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	_
21	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	csubj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	obl	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
39	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
40	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Nor | more  that dragon king |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | more  that dragon king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  | more *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **lean** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | ever |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dry up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | Nor's body *conj*; yellow *property* | tree rules |

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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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