The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 68

Now Indra, king of the gods, listened to the conversation, and when the griffin, by his mighty prowess, had obtained the drink of immortality, he said to him: “O griffin, take steps to prevent the foolish snakes from consuming the drink of immortality, and to enable me to take it away from them again.”

Who acts: Indra, griffin · What happens: listen, obtain, say, take, prevent, consume · To what, where: gods, griffin, steps, foolish snakes, drink, Indra · 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 (Indra, griffin), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Indra	advmod
2	Indra	Indra	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 king	punct
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Indra	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 gods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gods	det
7	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 king	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 listened	punct
9	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 gods	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 conversation	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 conversation	det
12	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 listened	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 obtained	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 obtained	cc
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 obtained	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 griffin	det
17	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 obtained	nsubj:pass
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 prowess	punct
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 prowess	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 prowess	nmod:poss
21	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 prowess	amod
22	prowess	prowess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 griffin	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 griffin	punct
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 obtained	aux
25	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Indra	acl:relcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 drink	det
27	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 obtained	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 immortality	case
29	immortality	immortality	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 drink	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indra	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	obl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	38 griffin	punct
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	38 griffin	punct
37	O	o	INTJ	_	38 griffin	discourse
38	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 take	nsubj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 take	punct
40	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 said	ccomp
41	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 take	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 prevent	mark
43	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 take	advcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 snakes	det
45	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 snakes	amod
46	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 prevent	obj
47	from	from	SCONJ	_	48 consuming	mark
48	consuming	consume	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 prevent	advcl
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 drink	det
50	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 consuming	obj
51	of	of	ADP	_	52 immortality	case
52	immortality	immortality	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 drink	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 enable	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 enable	cc
55	to	to	PART	_	56 enable	mark
56	enable	enable	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 take	conj
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 enable	obj
58	to	to	PART	_	59 take	mark
59	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 enable	xcomp
60	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 take	obj
61	away	away	ADV	_	59 take	advmod
62	from	from	ADP	_	63 them	case
63	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 take	obl
64	again	again	ADV	_	59 take	advmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	40 take	punct
66	”	"	PUNCT	_	40 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen	participle		the gods not said here			to the conversation	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to conversation=Theme
2	obtain	past · perfect · passive		the griffin and Griffin's mighty prowess			the drink of immortality obj	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Indra		Griffin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	take in a quote	infinitive	griffin	steps				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme
5	prevent in a quote	to-infinitive	griffin not said here	the foolish snakes				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer snake=Theme
6	consume in a quote	gerund	griffin not said here	the drink of immortality				vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Asset
7	enable in a quote	to-infinitive	griffin not said here	Indra				tree rules
8	take away in a quote	to-infinitive	Indra not said here	drink		again	from snakes = snake; away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Theme from they=Initial_Location

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 68

The tree

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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 68