The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 41

And because the kingdom of Jīmūta-ketu was weak, they determined to attack it and overthrow it, and to take possession of the wishing-tree that granted all desires.

Who acts: kingdom, relatives, wishing tree · What happens: be, determine, attack, overthrow, take, grant · To what, where: kingdom, possession, desires, wishing tree

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 (kingdom, relatives, wishing 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 determined	cc
2	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 weak	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kingdom	det
4	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weak	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 ketu	case
6	Jīmūta	Jīmūta	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 ketu	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Jīmūta	punct
8	ketu	ketu	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kingdom	nmod
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 weak	cop
10	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 determined	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 weak	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 determined	nsubj
13	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 attack	mark
15	attack	attack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 determined	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 attack	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 overthrow	cc
18	overthrow	overthrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 attack	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 overthrow	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 take	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 take	mark
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 determined	conj
24	possession	possession	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	29 tree	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 tree	det
27	wishing	wishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tree	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 wishing	punct
29	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 possession	nmod
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 granted	nsubj
31	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 tree	acl:relcl
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 desires	det
33	desires	desire	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 granted	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the kingdom of Jīmūta ketu		weak property	tree rules
2	determine	past	relatives = relative			vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	attack	to-infinitive	relatives = relative not said here	kingdom		vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	overthrow	infinitive	relatives = relative not said here	kingdom		tree rules
5	take	to-infinitive	relatives = relative not said here	possession of the wishing tree		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
6	grant	past	the wishing tree	all desires		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent desire=Theme
7	possess			the wishing tree		nom possession «act 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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 41

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 41