The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 39
Let no living being with two feet injure me!
Who acts: you, two feet · What happens: let, be, injure · To what, where: living, me
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 (you, two feet), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 living | det |
| 3 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obj |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 feet | cop |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 feet | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 feet | nummod |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 injure | nsubj |
| 8 | injure | injure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 injure | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | no living | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | with two feet | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | injure | present | two feet | me | tree rules |
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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