The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 36

Therefore if this wishing-tree which we possess, and which grants all desires, be employed for the benefit of others, we shall reap from it all the fruit that it can give.

Who acts: wishing tree, we, tree · What happens: possess, grant, employ, reap, give · To what, where: desires, benefit, fruit

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 (wishing tree, we, tree), 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	9 possess	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 possess	mark
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 tree	det
4	wishing	wishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 wishing	punct
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 possess	nsubj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 possess	obj
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 possess	nsubj
9	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grants	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 grants	cc
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 grants	nsubj
13	grants	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 possess	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 desires	det
15	desires	desire	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grants	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 employed	punct
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 employed	aux:pass
18	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 grants	parataxis
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 benefit	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 benefit	det
21	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 employed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 others	case
23	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 benefit	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 reap	punct
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 reap	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 reap	aux
27	reap	reap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 employed	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reap	obl
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 fruit	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 fruit	det
32	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 reap	parataxis
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 give	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 give	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 give	aux
36	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 fruit	acl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 possess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	possess	present	this wishing tree			which obj; we nsubj; therefore property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme
2	grant	present		all desires		which nsubj	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent desire=Theme
3	employ	infinitive · passive				for the benefit of others	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: for benefit=Eventuality
4	reap	shall	we		benefit	all fruit parataxis	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent from it=Initial_Location
5	give	can	tree	all fruit not said here			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 36