The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 107
You grant me my life, and I will grant you your life.”
Who acts: You, I · What happens: grant · To what, where: life, me, you
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 (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 grant | nsubj |
| 2 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 grant | obj |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grant | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grant | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 grant | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 grant | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 grant | aux |
| 10 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 grant | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 grant | obj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 life | nmod:poss |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grant | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grant | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | present | You | my life | me | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal life=Theme | |||
| 2 | grant | future | I | your life | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=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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