The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 37
Accordingly I will so act that by the wealth of this tree all living beings shall be delivered from poverty and distress.”
Who acts: I · What happens: act, live, deliver · To what, where: living beings, poverty
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), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 5 act | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 act | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 act | aux |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 act | advmod |
| 5 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 delivered | mark |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 wealth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wealth | det |
| 9 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 living | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wealth | nmod |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 living | advmod |
| 14 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 beings | amod |
| 15 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 delivered | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 delivered | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 delivered | aux:pass |
| 18 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 act | advcl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 poverty | case |
| 20 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 delivered | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 distress | cc |
| 22 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 poverty | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 act | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 act | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | future | I | accordingly property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | by the wealth of this tree; all property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wealth=Location | |||||
| 3 | deliver | shall · passive | living beings | poverty and distress | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from poverty=Initial_Location |
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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