The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 30
For so long as we possess this tree, we cannot suffer injury of any kind from anyone, even from Indra, king of the gods, much less from any other.”
Who acts: we · What happens: possess, not suffer, injure · To what, where: tree, injury, anyone, kind
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 (we), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 long | case |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 suffer | obl |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 possess | mark |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 possess | nsubj |
| 6 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 suffer | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 possess | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 possess | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 suffer | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 suffer | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 suffer | advmod |
| 13 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suffer | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 kind | case |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 kind | det |
| 17 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 injury | nmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 anyone | case |
| 19 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 suffer | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Indra | punct |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 Indra | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 Indra | case |
| 23 | Indra | Indra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 suffer | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 king | punct |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Indra | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 gods | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 gods | det |
| 28 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 king | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 less | punct |
| 30 | much | much | ADV | _ | 31 less | advmod |
| 31 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 Indra | advmod |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 any | case |
| 33 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 less | obl |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 any | fixed |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 suffer | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | present | we | this tree | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not suffer | can | we | injury of any kind | anyone | Indra parataxis | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer injury=Stimulus for long=Attribute | ||
| 3 | injure | any kind | nom injury «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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