The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 124
Henceforth to you will we offer respect, reverence, veneration, salutation, and honor; to you will we offer respectful greeting, rising on meeting, homage with joined hands, and proper courtesy; in your admonitions will we abide steadfast.
Who acts: we, your · What happens: offer, rise, join, abide, admonish · To what, where: respect, you, respectful greeting, meeting, admonitions
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, your), 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 | Henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 6 offer | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 you | case |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 offer | obl |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 offer | aux |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 offer | nsubj |
| 6 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offer | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reverence | punct |
| 9 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 respect | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 veneration | punct |
| 11 | veneration | veneration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 respect | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 salutation | punct |
| 13 | salutation | salutation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 veneration | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 honor | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 honor | cc |
| 16 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 respect | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 offer | punct |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 offer | obl |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 offer | aux |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 offer | nsubj |
| 22 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 offer | conj |
| 23 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 greeting | amod |
| 24 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 offer | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rising | punct |
| 26 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 offer | advcl |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 meeting | case |
| 28 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rising | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 homage | punct |
| 30 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 meeting | appos |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 hands | case |
| 32 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 hands | amod |
| 33 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 homage | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 courtesy | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 courtesy | cc |
| 36 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 courtesy | amod |
| 37 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 offer | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 abide | punct |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 admonitions | case |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 admonitions | nmod:poss |
| 41 | admonitions | admonition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 abide | obl |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 abide | aux |
| 43 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 abide | nsubj |
| 44 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 offer | conj |
| 45 | steadfast | steadfast | ADV | _ | 44 abide | advmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 offer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | future | we | respect and reverence and veneration and salutation and honor | you | proper courtesy obl; henceforth property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent respect=Theme to you=Goal | ||
| 2 | offer | future | we | respectful greeting | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme to you=Goal | |||
| 3 | rise | gerund | we not said here | meeting | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on meeting=Location | ||||
| 4 | join | participle | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | abide | future | we | your admonitions | steadfast property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | admonish | your | nom admonition «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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