The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 104
“How have I the power to grant your majesty your life?
Who acts: Dīghāvu · What happens: have, grant · To what, where: power, majesty
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dīghāvu), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 have | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 power | det |
| 6 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 grant | mark |
| 8 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | advcl |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 10 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grant | obj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grant | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | Dīghāvu Prince = dīghāvu | the power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grant in a quote | to-infinitive | Dīghāvu Prince = dīghāvu not said here | your majesty | your life obj | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Goal life=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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