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title: That body of thine, which would suffer even from the torch of the su… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: That body of thine, which would suffer even from the torch of the sun’s rays,--how can it endure the agony of being devoured by the griffin? Who acts: body, torch, griffin, sun. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 104

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That body of thine, which would suffer even from the torch of the sun’s rays,--how can it endure the agony of being devoured by the griffin?

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**Who acts:** body, torch, griffin, sun · **What happens:** suffer, endure, devour, ray · **To what, where:** torch, agony, body

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body, torch, griffin, sun), 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:pg74064:16:108
# text = That body of thine, which would suffer even from the torch of the sun’s rays,--how can it endure the agony of being devoured by the griffin?
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	endure	endure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	griffin	griffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | would | that body | the torch of the sun's rays |  |  |  | thine *nmod:poss* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer torch=Stimulus |
| 2 | **endure** | can | torch | the agony |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme agony=Circumstance |
| 3 | **devour** | gerund · passive | the griffin | the agony *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ray** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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