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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 17

The wise boar replied: “I wish only to have my body restored to me like as it was before, and to have the lioness that died of hunger restored to life again, that she may satisfy her hunger with my body and blood.”

Who acts: wise boar, body, reverence, lioness · What happens: reply, wish, have, restore, like, be · To what, where: wise boar, lioness, hunger, life · 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 (wise boar, body, reverence, lioness), 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

detamodnsubjpunctpunctnsubjccompadvmodmarkccompnmod:possnsubjccompcaseoblxcompmarknsubjcopxcomppunctccmarkparataxisdetobjnsubjacl:relclcaseoblaclcaseobladvmodpunctmarknsubjauxconjnmod:possobjcasenmod:possoblccconjpunctpunctrootTheDETwiseADJboarNOUNrepliedVERB:PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONwishVERBonlyADVtoPARThaveVERBmyPRONbodyNOUNrestoredVERBtoADPmePRONlikeVERBasSCONJitPRONwasAUXbeforeADV,PUNCTandCCONJtoPARThaveVERBtheDETlionessNOUNthatPRONdiedVERBofADPhungerNOUNrestoredVERBtoADPlifeNOUNagainADV,PUNCTthatSCONJshePRONmayAUXsatisfyVERBherPRONhungerNOUNwithADPmyPRONbodyNOUNandCCONJbloodNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 boardet
2wisewiseADJDegree=Pos3 boaramod
3boarboarNOUNNumber=Sing4 repliednsubj
4repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5::PUNCT_8 wishpunct
6“"PUNCT_8 wishpunct
7IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs8 wishnsubj
8wishwishVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 repliedccomp
9onlyonlyADV_11 haveadvmod
10totoPART_11 havemark
11havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf8 wishccomp
12mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 bodynmod:poss
13bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing14 restorednsubj
14restoredrestoreVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 haveccomp
15totoADP_16 mecase
16meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs14 restoredobl
17likelikeVERBVerbForm=Inf11 havexcomp
18asasSCONJ_21 beforemark
19ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 beforensubj
20wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 beforecop
21beforebeforeADV_17 likexcomp
22,,PUNCT_25 havepunct
23andandCCONJ_25 havecc
24totoPART_25 havemark
25havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf8 wishparataxis
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 lionessdet
27lionesslionessNOUNNumber=Sing25 haveobj
28thatthatPRONPronType=Rel29 diednsubj
29dieddieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 lionessacl:relcl
30ofofADP_31 hungercase
31hungerhungerNOUNNumber=Sing29 diedobl
32restoredrestoreVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass31 hungeracl
33totoADP_34 lifecase
34lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing32 restoredobl
35againagainADV_29 diedadvmod
36,,PUNCT_40 satisfypunct
37thatthatSCONJ_40 satisfymark
38sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 satisfynsubj
39maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin40 satisfyaux
40satisfysatisfyVERBVerbForm=Inf25 haveconj
41herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs42 hungernmod:poss
42hungerhungerNOUNNumber=Sing40 satisfyobj
43withwithADP_45 bodycase
44mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs45 bodynmod:poss
45bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing40 satisfyobl
46andandCCONJ_47 bloodcc
47bloodbloodNOUNNumber=Sing45 bodyconj
48..PUNCT_4 repliedpunct
49”"PUNCT_4 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastthe wise boarvn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2wish in a quotepresentthe wise boar = boarvn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3have not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitivetree rules
4restore in a quotepastmy bodythe wise boar = boarvn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
5like in a quoteinfinitivevn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6is not said to happen, in a quotepastreverencebefore propertytree rules
7have in a quoteto-infinitivethe lionessvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lioness=Patient
8die in a quotepastthe lionessagainof hungervn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer
9restore in a quoteparticiplehunger not said herelifevn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to life=Recipient
10satisfy in a quotemaylionesslioness's hungerwith my body and bloodvn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hunger=Theme with body=Instrument
11hunger in a quotelionessnom hunger «state 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.

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