--- title: Let all creatures that live,--let all creatures that breathe,-- Let… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: Let all creatures that live,--let all creatures that breathe,-- Let all creatures that exist,--one and all,-- Let all meet with prosperity! Who acts: you, creatures. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/43/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/) / 43 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 43 Let all creatures that live,--let all creatures that breathe,-- Let all creatures that exist,--one and all,-- Let all meet with prosperity! **Who acts:** you, creatures · **What happens:** let, live, breathe, exist, meet · **To what, where:** creatures This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, creatures), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:12:44 # text = Let all creatures that live,--let all creatures that breathe,-- Let all creatures that exist,--one and all,-- Let all meet with prosperity! 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 4 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 -- -- PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 breathe breathe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 16 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 17 det _ _ 17 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 exist exist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 appos _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 -- -- PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 28 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 29 advmod _ _ 29 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 prosperity prosperity NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | all creatures | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | | 2 | **live** | present | all creatures | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | | all creatures | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | | 4 | **breathe** | present | all creatures | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | | all creatures | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | | 6 | **exist** | present | all creatures | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **let** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **meet** | infinitive | | | | | | with prosperity | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with prosperity=Co-Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/44/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/12/)