The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 38
Then Jīmūta-vāhana went to the wishing-tree and said: “O tree-spirit, thou that dost grant to us the fruit that we desire, fulfil to-day this one wish of mine: Deliver all living beings from poverty and distress.”
Who acts: Jīmūta vāhana, we, mine · What happens: go, say, do, desire, fulfil, deliver · To what, where: wishing tree, grant, us, fruit, living beings, poverty · 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 (Jīmūta vāhana, we, mine), 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 | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 vāhana | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jīmūta | punct |
| 4 | vāhana | vāhana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 8 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 wishing | punct |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 spirit | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 spirit | punct |
| 15 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 18 spirit | discourse |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spirit | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 tree | punct |
| 18 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thou | punct |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 spirit | appos |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 dost | mark |
| 22 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 spirit | advcl |
| 23 | grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dost | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 dost | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fruit | det |
| 27 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 us | obj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 desire | obj |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 desire | nsubj |
| 30 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 fruit | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fulfil | punct |
| 32 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 desire | conj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 day | case |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 to | punct |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fulfil | obl |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 wish | det |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 wish | nummod |
| 38 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 day | appos |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 mine | case |
| 40 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 wish | nmod |
| 41 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 42 Deliver | punct |
| 42 | Deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 43 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 beings | det |
| 44 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 beings | amod |
| 45 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 Deliver | obj |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 47 poverty | case |
| 47 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Deliver | obl |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 distress | cc |
| 49 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 poverty | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 42 Deliver | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 Deliver | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Jīmūta vāhana | the wishing tree | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jīmūta vāhana not said here | tree spirit ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | Jīmūta vāhana not said here | grant | us | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grant=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | desire in a quote | present | we | the fruit | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fulfil in a quote | present | we not said here | day | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | deliver in a quote | infinitive | all living beings | poverty and distress | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent being=Theme from poverty=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | live in a quote | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | wish in a quote | mine | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=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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