The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 65
Then the god Vishnu, pleased with his mighty prowess, condescended to say to him: “I am pleased with thee; choose some boon.”
Who acts: I · What happens: condescend, say, be, choose · To what, where: mighty prowess, Vishnu, boon · 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 (I), 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 | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 god | det |
| 3 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | nsubj |
| 4 | Vishnu | Vishnu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 god | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 prowess | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 prowess | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 prowess | amod |
| 10 | prowess | prowess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 condescended | punct |
| 12 | condescended | condescend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 prowess | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 condescended | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 say | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 pleased | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 pleased | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 pleased | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 pleased | cop |
| 21 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pleased | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 thee | case |
| 23 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 pleased | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 choose | punct |
| 25 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | parataxis |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 boon | det |
| 27 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 choose | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condescend | participle | Vishnu's mighty prowess not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Vishnu | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | I | with thee; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | choose in a quote | infinitive | some boon | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boon=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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