The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 134
Were I to deprive your majesty of life, your majesty’s well-wishers would deprive me of life, and my well-wishers would deprive yours of life.
Who acts: I, wishers · What happens: deprive · To what, where: majesty, me, yours
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 (I, wishers), 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 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 deprive | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 deprive | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 deprive | mark |
| 4 | deprive | deprive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 6 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deprive | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 majesty | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ’s | punct |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ’s | nsubj |
| 12 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deprive | conj |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 deprive | advmod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 well | punct |
| 15 | wishers | wisher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 deprive | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 deprive | aux |
| 17 | deprive | deprive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ’s | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 deprive | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deprive | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 deprive | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 deprive | cc |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wishers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 wishers | advmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 well | punct |
| 26 | wishers | wisher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 deprive | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 deprive | aux |
| 28 | deprive | deprive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 deprive | conj |
| 29 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 deprive | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 life | case |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 deprive | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deprive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deprive | past | I | your majesty of life | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Source | ||||
| 2 | deprive | would | wishers | me | of life; well property | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Source of life=Theme | |||
| 3 | deprive | would | my wishers | yours | of life | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent your=Source of 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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