The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 154

For, monks, if that monk had suffused the four royal families of snakes with friendly thoughts, in that case, monks, that monk would not have been bitten by a snake and died.

Who acts: snake · What happens: suffuse, not bite, die · To what, where: monk

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 (snake), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 monks	case
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 monks	punct
3	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 suffused	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 monks	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 suffused	mark
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 monk	det
7	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suffused	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 suffused	aux
9	suffused	suffuse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 families	det
11	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 families	nummod
12	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 families	amod
13	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 suffused	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 snakes	case
15	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 families	nmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 thoughts	case
17	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thoughts	amod
18	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 snakes	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 case	punct
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 case	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 case	det
22	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thoughts	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 monks	punct
24	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thoughts	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bitten	punct
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 monk	det
27	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bitten	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 bitten	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 bitten	advmod
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 bitten	aux
31	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 bitten	aux:pass
32	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 suffused	parataxis
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 snake	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 snake	det
35	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bitten	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 died	cc
37	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 bitten	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 suffused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suffuse	past · perfect · passive		that monk	for monks; the four royal families of snakes with friendly thoughts and that case and monks obj	tree rules
2	not bite	would · perfect · passive	a snake	that monk		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	die	past	a snake not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 154

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 154