The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 42
And they assembled and met together and began preparations to attack the kingdom of Jīmūta-ketu and to overthrow it and to take possession of the wishing-tree that granted all desires.
Who acts: relatives, wishing tree · What happens: assemble, meet, begin, attack, overthrow, take · To what, where: preparations, 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 (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 | _ | 3 assembled | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 assembled | nsubj |
| 3 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 met | cc |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 assembled | conj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 met | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 assembled | conj |
| 9 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 began | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 attack | mark |
| 11 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kingdom | det |
| 13 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attack | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ketu | case |
| 15 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 ketu | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Jīmūta | punct |
| 17 | ketu | ketu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kingdom | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 overthrow | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 overthrow | mark |
| 20 | overthrow | overthrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 attack | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 overthrow | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 take | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 take | mark |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 overthrow | conj |
| 25 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 28 | wishing | wishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tree | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 wishing | punct |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 possession | nmod |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 granted | nsubj |
| 32 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tree | acl:relcl |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 desires | det |
| 34 | desires | desire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 granted | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past | relatives = relative | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | past | relatives = relative not said here | together property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | relatives = relative not said here | preparations | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | attack | to-infinitive | relatives = relative not said here | the kingdom of Jīmūta ketu | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient | ||||
| 5 | overthrow | to-infinitive | relatives = relative not said here | kingdom | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive | relatives = relative not said here | possession of the wishing tree | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 7 | grant | past | the wishing tree | all desires | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent desire=Theme | ||||
| 8 | 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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