The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 97

And when men rose to kill him, he would not let them, but set the king free with the admonition: “Henceforth be careful; do not presume on the youth of the prince.”

Who acts: men, Elephant · What happens: rise, kill, not let, set, be, not presume · To what, where: Elephant, men, king, youth

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 (men, Elephant), 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	_	12 let	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 rose	advmod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 let	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 kill	mark
6	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rose	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kill	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 let	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 let	advmod
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 set	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 set	cc
16	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 let	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obj
19	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 set	xcomp
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 admonition	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 admonition	det
22	admonition	admonition	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 free	obl
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 careful	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 careful	punct
25	Henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	27 careful	advmod
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 careful	cop
27	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 set	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 presume	punct
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 presume	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 presume	advmod
31	presume	presume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	advcl
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 youth	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 youth	det
34	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 presume	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 prince	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 prince	det
37	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 youth	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	men				tree rules
2	kill	to-infinitive	men not said here	Elephant			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	not let	would	Elephant	men = man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	set	past	Elephant not said here	the king		free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient king=Result
5	is in a quote	infinitive	Elephant not said here			careful, henceforth property	tree rules
6	not presume in a quote	infinitive · do-support	Elephant not said here		the youth of the prince		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 97

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 97