The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 53

And he said: “By the supernatural power of the Three Jewels, which are infinite, let those of us who are finite, obtain protection for ourselves both by night and by day.”

Who acts: Buddha, Three Jewels · What happens: say, be, let, obtain · To what, where: those, protection · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Buddha, Three Jewels), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
6	By	by	ADP	_	9 power	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 power	det
8	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 power	amod
9	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 let	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Jewels	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Jewels	det
12	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 Jewels	nummod
13	Jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 power	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 infinite	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 infinite	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 infinite	cop
17	infinite	infinite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Jewels	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 power	punct
19	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
20	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 let	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 those	nmod
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 finite	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 finite	cop
25	finite	finite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 those	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 obtain	punct
27	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 let	conj
28	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 obtain	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 ourselves	case
30	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 obtain	obl
31	both	both	ADV	_	27 obtain	advmod
32	by	by	ADP	_	33 night	case
33	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 obtain	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 day	cc
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 day	case
36	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 night	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Buddha				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	the Three Jewels			infinite property	tree rules
3	let in a quote	infinitive		those of us		by the supernatural power of the Three Jewels	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
4	is in a quote	present				who nsubj; finite property	tree rules
5	obtain in a quote	present		protection	night	for ourselves; both property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent protection=Theme for ourselves=Asset

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 53

The tree

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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 53