The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 91

Since he has a thousand faces and a thousand mouths, why can he not say with one of his mouths to the griffin who is his enemy: ‘Eat me first, O griffin!’”

Who acts: Jīmūta, griffin · What happens: have, not say, be, eat · To what, where: thousand faces, enemy, me · 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, 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	Since	since	SCONJ	_	3 has	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 faces	det
5	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 faces	nummod
6	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mouths	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thousand	det
9	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 mouths	nummod
10	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 faces	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 say	advmod
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 say	aux
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 say	nsubj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 say	advmod
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 faces	parataxis
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 say	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 mouths	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 mouths	nmod:poss
21	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 griffin	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 griffin	det
24	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mouths	nmod
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 enemy	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 enemy	cop
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 enemy	nmod:poss
28	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 griffin	acl:relcl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 Eat	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 Eat	punct
31	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 Eat	obj
33	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 Eat	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 griffin	punct
35	O	o	INTJ	_	36 griffin	discourse
36	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Eat	parataxis
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 griffin	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 griffin	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 Eat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Jīmūta	a thousand faces and thousand mouths		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient
2	not say speech: assert	can	Jīmūta		with one of Jīmūta's mouths to the griffin	vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with one=Manner
3	is a	present	the griffin	Jīmūta's enemy	Jīmūta nmod:poss	tree rules
4	eat	infinitive		me	griffin parataxis; first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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 91

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 91