The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 83
But you must not commit the folly of entering Pātāla, for by destroying utterly the whole race of the snakes, you will only defeat your own purpose.”
Who acts: you, folly, snakes, your · What happens: not commit, enter, destroy, defeat, race, purpose · To what, where: folly, Pātāla, whole race, own purpose
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 (you, folly, snakes, your), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 commit | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 commit | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 commit | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 commit | advmod |
| 5 | commit | commit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 folly | det |
| 7 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 commit | obj |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 entering | mark |
| 9 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 folly | acl |
| 10 | Pātāla | Pātāla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 entering | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 destroying | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 destroying | mark |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 destroying | mark |
| 14 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 commit | advcl |
| 15 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 14 destroying | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 race | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 race | amod |
| 18 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 destroying | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 snakes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 snakes | det |
| 21 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 race | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 defeat | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 defeat | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 defeat | aux |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 defeat | advmod |
| 26 | defeat | defeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 commit | conj |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 28 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 purpose | amod |
| 29 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 defeat | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 commit | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 commit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not commit | must | you | the folly | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folly=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | gerund | the folly not said here | Pātāla | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pātāla=Destination | ||||
| 3 | destroy | gerund | you not said here | the whole race of the snakes | utterly property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Patient | |||
| 4 | defeat | future | you | your own purpose | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | race | the snakes | nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | purpose | your | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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