The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 2
I cannot consent to save my own body at the cost of thine.
Who acts: I · What happens: not consent, save, cost · To what, where: own body, cost, thine
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 consent | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 consent | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 consent | advmod |
| 4 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 save | mark |
| 6 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 consent | xcomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 body | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 body | amod |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 save | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 cost | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cost | det |
| 12 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 save | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 thine | case |
| 14 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 cost | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not consent | can | I | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | save | to-infinitive | I not said here | my own body | the cost of thine | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent body=Theme at cost=Asset | |||
| 3 | cost | thine | nom cost «possession transitive»: of=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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