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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 33

There is friendship ’twixt me and Virūpakkha snakes, There is friendship ’twixt me and Erāpatha snakes, There is friendship ’twixt me and Chabyāputta snakes, There is friendship ’twixt me and Black Gotamaka snakes.

Who acts: friendship · What happens: be

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 (friendship), 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

explnsubjnsubjgoeswithgoeswithcccompoundconjpunctexplcopnsubjnsubjgoeswithgoeswithcccompoundconjpunctexplcopcompoundnsubjgoeswithgoeswithcccompoundconjpunctexplparataxisnsubjapposgoeswithgoeswithcccompoundcompoundconjpunctrootTherePRONisVERBfriendshipNOUN’XtwixtXmePRONandCCONJVirūpakkhaPROPNsnakesNOUN,PUNCTTherePRONisAUXfriendshipNOUN’XtwixtXmePRONandCCONJErāpathaPROPNsnakesNOUN,PUNCTTherePRONisAUXfriendshipNOUN’XtwixtXmePRONandCCONJChabyāputtaPROPNsnakesNOUN,PUNCTTherePRONisVERBfriendshipNOUN’XtwixtXmePRONandCCONJBlackPROPNGotamakaPROPNsnakesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheretherePRONPronType=Dem2 isexpl
2isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3friendshipfriendshipNOUNNumber=Sing2 isnsubj
4’'X_2 isnsubj
5twixttwixtX_4 ’goeswith
6meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 ’goeswith
7andandCCONJ_9 snakescc
8VirūpakkhaVirūpakkhaPROPNNumber=Sing9 snakescompound
9snakessnakeNOUNNumber=Plur6 meconj
10,,PUNCT_12 ispunct
11TheretherePRONPronType=Dem12 isexpl
12isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 ’cop
13friendshipfriendshipNOUNNumber=Sing12 isnsubj
14’'X_2 isnsubj
15twixttwixtX_14 ’goeswith
16meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs14 ’goeswith
17andandCCONJ_19 snakescc
18ErāpathaErāpathaPROPNNumber=Sing19 snakescompound
19snakessnakeNOUNNumber=Plur16 meconj
20,,PUNCT_22 ispunct
21TheretherePRONPronType=Dem22 isexpl
22isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 ’cop
23friendshipfriendshipNOUNNumber=Sing24 ’compound
24’'X_2 isnsubj
25twixttwixtX_24 ’goeswith
26meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs24 ’goeswith
27andandCCONJ_29 snakescc
28ChabyāputtaChabyāputtaPROPNNumber=Sing29 snakescompound
29snakessnakeNOUNNumber=Plur26 meconj
30,,PUNCT_32 ispunct
31TheretherePRONPronType=Dem32 isexpl
32isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 isparataxis
33friendshipfriendshipNOUNNumber=Sing32 isnsubj
34’'XExtPos=PROPN33 friendshipappos
35twixttwixtX_34 ’goeswith
36meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs34 ’goeswith
37andandCCONJ_40 snakescc
38BlackBlackPROPNNumber=Sing39 Gotamakacompound
39GotamakaGotamakaPROPNNumber=Sing40 snakescompound
40snakessnakeNOUNNumber=Plur36 meconj
41..PUNCT_2 ispunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepresentfriendshiptherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2bepresentfriendshiptherevn exist-47.1 «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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