The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 74
If, on the seventh day, she gives birth to a son, we will give battle,--not the kingdom.
Who acts: Kosala, we · What happens: give · To what, where: birth, son, battle
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kosala, we), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 gives | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 If | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gives | nsubj |
| 9 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | advcl |
| 10 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 son | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gives | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gives | punct |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kingdom | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 kingdom | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 kingdom | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kingdom | det |
| 23 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 battle | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen | present | Kosala | birth | a son | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to son=Recipient | ||
| 2 | give | future | we | battle and the kingdom | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme |
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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