The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 110
The older ascetic asked: “But do you or do you not wish that dragon never to come back again?”
Who acts: older ascetic, you, dragon · What happens: ask, do, not wish, not come back · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (older ascetic, you, dragon), 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 | 3 ascetic | det |
| 2 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 ascetic | amod |
| 3 | ascetic | ascetic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 7 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 do | cc |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 wish | cc |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wish | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 wish | nsubj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 wish | advmod |
| 14 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 16 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | nsubj |
| 17 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 come | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wish | advcl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the older ascetic | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not wish in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | not come back in a quote | to-infinitive | dragon | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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