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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 43

Thereupon Jīmūta-vāhana the fairy-prince said to Jīmūta-ketu the fairy-king his father: “Why should we seek to obtain new wealth, or to retain the wealth that we possess?

Who acts: Jīmūta, we · What happens: say, seek, obtain, retain, possess · To what, where: new wealth, wealth · 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, we), 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

advmodnsubjpunctdepdetcompoundpunctobjcasensubjpunctflat:foreigndetcompoundpunctnsubjnmod:possnsubjpunctpunctadvmodauxnsubjconjmarkxcompamodobjpunctccmarkconjdetobjobjnsubjacl:relclpunctrootThereuponADVJīmūtaPROPN-PUNCTvāhanaXtheDETfairyNOUN-PUNCTprinceNOUNsaidVERBtoADPJīmūtaPROPN-PUNCTketuXtheDETfairyNOUN-PUNCTkingNOUNhisPRONfatherNOUN:PUNCT“PUNCTWhyADVshouldAUXwePRONseekVERBtoPARTobtainVERBnewADJwealthNOUN,PUNCTorCCONJtoPARTretainVERBtheDETwealthNOUNthatPRONwePRONpossessVERB?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThereuponthereuponADV_9 saidadvmod
2JīmūtaJīmūtaPROPNNumber=Sing9 saidnsubj
3--PUNCT_4 vāhanapunct
4vāhanavāhanaXForeign=Yes2 Jīmūtadep
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 princedet
6fairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing8 princecompound
7--PUNCT_6 fairypunct
8princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing4 vāhanaobj
9saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10totoADP_11 Jīmūtacase
11JīmūtaJīmūtaPROPNNumber=Sing9 saidnsubj
12--PUNCT_11 Jīmūtapunct
13ketuketuXForeign=Yes11 Jīmūtaflat:foreign
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 kingdet
15fairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing17 kingcompound
16--PUNCT_15 fairypunct
17kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing9 saidnsubj
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 fathernmod:poss
19fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing9 saidnsubj
20::PUNCT_25 seekpunct
21“"PUNCT_25 seekpunct
22WhywhyADVPronType=Int25 seekadvmod
23shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin25 seekaux
24wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs25 seeknsubj
25seekseekVERBVerbForm=Inf9 saidconj
26totoPART_27 obtainmark
27obtainobtainVERBVerbForm=Inf25 seekxcomp
28newnewADJDegree=Pos29 wealthamod
29wealthwealthNOUNNumber=Sing27 obtainobj
30,,PUNCT_33 retainpunct
31ororCCONJ_33 retaincc
32totoPART_33 retainmark
33retainretainVERBVerbForm=Inf25 seekconj
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 wealthdet
35wealthwealthNOUNNumber=Sing33 retainobj
36thatthatPRONPronType=Rel38 possessobj
37wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs38 possessnsubj
38possesspossessVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 wealthacl:relcl
39??PUNCT_9 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: askpastJīmūtathe fairy king nsubj; king's father nsubj; thereupon propertyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2seek in a quoteshouldwetree rules
3obtain not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitivewe not said herenew wealthvn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wealth=Theme
4retain in a quoteto-infinitivewe not said herethe wealthtree rules
5possess in a quotepresentwethe wealthvn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=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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