The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 170

If, monks, you walk in lawful ground, in the region of the fathers, the Evil One will not obtain entrance, the Evil One will not obtain lodgment.”

Who acts: monks, Evil One · What happens: walk, not obtain · To what, where: lawful ground, entrance, lodgment

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 (monks, Evil One), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 monks	mark
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 monks	punct
3	monks	monk	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walk	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 monks	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 walk	nsubj
6	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	lawful	lawful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ground	amod
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 region	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 region	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 region	det
13	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 fathers	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fathers	det
16	fathers	father	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 region	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 obtain	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 One	det
19	Evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 One	amod
20	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 obtain	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 obtain	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 obtain	advmod
23	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 walk	parataxis
24	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 obtain	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 obtain	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 One	det
27	Evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 One	amod
28	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 obtain	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 obtain	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 obtain	advmod
31	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 obtain	conj
32	lodgment	lodgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 obtain	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 walk	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	present	monks		lawful ground	in the region of the fathers; you nsubj	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Trajectory
2	not obtain	future	the Evil One	entrance			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset entrance=Theme
3	not obtain	future	the Evil One	lodgment			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lodgment=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 170

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 170