The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 96
Under no circumstances, because you cannot endure your misfortune, must you recite the charm and cause the Rain of Riches.
Who acts: you · What happens: not endure, recite, cause, rain · To what, where: misfortune, charm, circumstances, Rain, Riches
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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 circumstances | case |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 circumstances | det |
| 3 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 recite | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 endure | punct |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 endure | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 endure | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 endure | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 endure | advmod |
| 9 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 circumstances | acl:relcl |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 misfortune | nmod:poss |
| 11 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 endure | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 circumstances | punct |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 recite | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 recite | nsubj |
| 15 | recite | recite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 charm | det |
| 17 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 recite | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 cause | cc |
| 19 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 recite | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Rain | det |
| 21 | Rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cause | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Riches | case |
| 23 | Riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Rain | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 recite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not endure | can | you | your misfortune | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme misfortune=Circumstance | ||||
| 2 | recite | must | you | the charm | no circumstances | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Theme | |||
| 3 | cause | infinitive | you not said here | the Rain of Riches | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rain=Patient | ||||
| 4 | rain | Riches | nom rain «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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