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title: And the younger ascetic, because he saw no more that dragon so fair… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And the younger ascetic, because he saw no more that dragon so fair to see, became more than ever lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, his body strewn with veins. Who acts: king, more dragon, younger ascetic. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, par
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 80

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And the younger ascetic, because he saw no more that dragon 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:** king, more dragon, younger ascetic · **What happens:** see, become, lean, dry up, be · **To what, where:** more dragon

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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 (king, more dragon, younger 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:pg74064:11:86
# text = And the younger ascetic, because he saw no more that dragon 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	_	34	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	no	no	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	xcomp	_	_
20	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	30	obl	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | king | that more dragon |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | that more dragon *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 | the younger ascetic |  |  |  |  | king'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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