The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 11

And while the griffin was devouring his body and blood, he uttered the following Earnest Wish: “May my body and blood be offered thus in every state of my existence, and may I not obtain rebirth in heaven or deliverance from the round of existences if thereby I shall be deprived of the opportunity of doing good to my neighbor!”

Who acts: griffin, opportunity, my · What happens: devour, utter, follow, may, offer, not obtain · To what, where: body, following Earnest Wish, state, rebirth, heaven, griffin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (griffin, opportunity, my), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 uttered	cc
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 devouring	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 griffin	det
4	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 devouring	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 devouring	aux
6	devouring	devour	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 uttered	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 body	nmod:poss
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 devouring	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blood	cc
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 body	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 devouring	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 uttered	nsubj
13	uttered	utter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Wish	det
15	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 Wish	amod
16	Earnest	Earnest	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Wish	compound
17	Wish	Wish	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 uttered	obj
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 May	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 May	punct
20	May	may	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 uttered	parataxis
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 body	nmod:poss
22	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 May	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 blood	cc
24	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 body	conj
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 offered	aux:pass
26	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 May	conj
27	thus	thus	ADV	_	26 offered	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 state	case
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 state	det
30	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 offered	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 existence	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 existence	nmod:poss
33	existence	existence	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 state	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 obtain	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 obtain	cc
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 obtain	aux
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 obtain	nsubj
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 obtain	advmod
39	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 May	conj
40	rebirth	rebirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 obtain	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 heaven	case
42	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 obtain	obl
43	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 deliverance	cc
44	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 heaven	conj
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 round	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 round	det
47	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 deliverance	nmod
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 existences	case
49	existences	existence	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 round	nmod
50	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 deprived	mark
51	thereby	thereby	ADV	_	55 deprived	advmod
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 deprived	nsubj
53	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 deprived	aux
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 deprived	aux:pass
55	deprived	deprive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 May	advcl
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 opportunity	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 opportunity	det
58	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 deprived	obl
59	of	of	SCONJ	_	60 doing	mark
60	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	58 opportunity	acl
61	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 doing	obj
62	to	to	ADP	_	64 neighbor	case
63	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 neighbor	nmod:poss
64	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 doing	obl
65	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 May	punct
66	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 May	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	devour	past · progressive	the griffin	griffin's body and blood			vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient
2	utter speech: other	past	griffin	the following Earnest Wish			tree rules
3	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	may in a quote	infinitive		my body and blood			tree rules
5	offer in a quote	infinitive · passive			every state of my existence	thus property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»
6	not obtain in a quote	may	griffin	rebirth	heaven or deliverance from the round of existences		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rebirth=Theme
7	deprive a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	shall · passive		griffin		of the opportunity; thereby property	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source of opportunity=Theme
8	do in a quote	gerund	the opportunity not said here	good		to my neighbor	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
9	exist in a quote		my				nom existence «state 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/17/11/

🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 11