The grateful elephant, Opening, part 6, sentence 136
But as matters stand, your majesty has granted me my life, and I have granted your majesty his life.
Who acts: matters, I · What happens: stand, grant · To what, where: 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 (matters, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 granted | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 stand | mark |
| 3 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stand | nsubj |
| 4 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 granted | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 7 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 granted | aux |
| 9 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 granted | obj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 granted | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 granted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 granted | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 granted | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 granted | aux |
| 17 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 granted | conj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 granted | obj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 life | nmod:poss |
| 21 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 granted | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | matters | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grant | present · perfect · passive | your majesty | me obj; my life obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grant | present · perfect | I | your majesty | father's 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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