The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 122
Then said Jīmūta-vāhana: “I have formed a resolution, and you must not defeat my purpose.”
Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: say, form, not defeat, purpose · To what, where: Jīmūta vāhana, resolution, purpose · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, my), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 vāhana | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Jīmūta | punct |
| 5 | vāhana | vāhana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 formed | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 formed | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 formed | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 formed | aux |
| 10 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 said | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 resolution | det |
| 12 | resolution | resolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 formed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 defeat | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 defeat | cc |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 defeat | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 defeat | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 defeat | advmod |
| 18 | defeat | defeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 20 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 defeat | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 defeat | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 defeat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jīmūta vāhana | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | form in a quote | present · perfect | I | a resolution | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location resolution=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not defeat in a quote | must | you | my purpose | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | purpose in a quote | my | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/122/