The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 56
Do you, this moment released from my hand, even as the moon is released from the Jaws of Rāhu, go gladden the circle of your kinsfolk and well-wishers!”
Who acts: you · What happens: release, go, gladden · To what, where: moment, hand, moon, Jaws, circle
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 go | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 moment | punct |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 you | appos |
| 6 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 moment | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 released | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 released | punct |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 released | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 released | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moon | det |
| 14 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 released | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 released | aux:pass |
| 16 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 released | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 Jaws | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Jaws | det |
| 19 | Jaws | Jaws | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 released | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Rāhu | case |
| 21 | Rāhu | Rāhu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Jaws | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 moment | punct |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 24 | gladden | gladden | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 circle | det |
| 26 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gladden | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 kinsfolk | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 kinsfolk | nmod:poss |
| 29 | kinsfolk | kinsfolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 circle | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wishers | cc |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 wishers | advmod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 well | punct |
| 33 | wishers | wisher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 kinsfolk | conj |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | release | participle | this moment not said here | my hand | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||
| 2 | release | present · passive | the moon | the Jaws of Rāhu | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source | ||||
| 3 | go | present · do-support | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | gladden | infinitive | you not said here | the circle of your kinsfolk and wishers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus circle=Experiencer |
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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