The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 162
I permit you, monks, to suffuse these four royal families of snakes with friendly thoughts; for self-preservation, for self-defense, to effect Protection of Self.
Who acts: I · What happens: permit, suffuse, protect · To what, where: you, four royal families, Self
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 permit | nsubj |
| 2 | permit | permit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 permit | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 monks | punct |
| 5 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 permit | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 suffuse | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 suffuse | mark |
| 8 | suffuse | suffuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 permit | conj |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 families | det |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 families | nummod |
| 11 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 families | amod |
| 12 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 suffuse | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 snakes | case |
| 14 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 families | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 thoughts | case |
| 16 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thoughts | amod |
| 17 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 snakes | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 preservation | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 preservation | case |
| 20 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 preservation | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 self | punct |
| 22 | preservation | preservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 suffuse | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 defense | punct |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 defense | case |
| 25 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 defense | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 self | punct |
| 27 | defense | defense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 preservation | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Protection | punct |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 Protection | mark |
| 30 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Protection | compound |
| 31 | Protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 suffuse | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Self | case |
| 33 | Self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Protection | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 permit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permit | present | I | you | monks obl | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | suffuse | to-infinitive | I not said here | this four royal families of snakes with friendly thoughts | for self preservation and self defense; effect Protection of Self obl | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme family=Destination | |||
| 3 | protect | Self | nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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