The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 51

For what desire for rule can I have, who am old, when you, who are young, out of compassion towards all living beings, abandon your kingdom as though it were so much straw and stubble?”

Who acts: desire, you, kingdom · What happens: have, be, live, abandon · To what, where: compassion, kingdom, much straw

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 (desire, you, kingdom), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 what	case
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 abandon	nsubj:outer
3	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	nsubj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 rule	case
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 desire	nmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 what	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 old	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 old	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 old	cop
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 what	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 young	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 young	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 young	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 young	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 young	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 young	cop
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 old	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 compassion	punct
21	out	out	ADP	_	23 compassion	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 compassion	case
23	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 young	obl
24	towards	towards	ADP	_	27 beings	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 beings	det
26	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 beings	amod
27	beings	being	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 compassion	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 abandon	punct
29	abandon	abandon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 kingdom	nmod:poss
31	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 abandon	obj
32	as	as	ADV	_	38 straw	advmod
33	though	though	SCONJ	_	38 straw	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 straw	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 straw	cop
36	so	so	ADV	_	37 much	advmod
37	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 straw	amod
38	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 abandon	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 stubble	cc
40	stubble	stubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 straw	conj
41	?	?	PUNCT	_	29 abandon	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 abandon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	can	desire for rule			I nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present				who nsubj; old property	tree rules
3	is	present	you		compassion towards all living beings	who nsubj; young property	tree rules
4	live	gerund					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	abandon	infinitive		your kingdom		what nsubj:outer	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme kingdom=Source
6	is a	past	kingdom	much straw and stubble		stubble conj	tree rules

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 51

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 51