The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 29
If, monks, you walk in forbidden ground, in a foreign region, the Evil One will obtain entrance, the Evil One will obtain lodgment.
Who acts: monks, Evil One · What happens: walk, obtain · To what, where: forbidden ground, entrance, lodgment
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. 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 | forbidden | forbidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ground | amod |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walk | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 region | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 region | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 region | det |
| 13 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 region | amod |
| 14 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walk | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 obtain | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 One | det |
| 17 | Evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 One | amod |
| 18 | One | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 obtain | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 obtain | aux |
| 20 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 walk | parataxis |
| 21 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 obtain | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 obtain | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 One | det |
| 24 | Evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 One | amod |
| 25 | One | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 obtain | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 obtain | aux |
| 27 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 obtain | conj |
| 28 | lodgment | lodgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 obtain | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | monks | forbidden ground | in a foreign region; you nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | obtain | future | the Evil One | entrance | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset entrance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | 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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