--- title: The wise boar replied: “I wish only to have my body restored to me l… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: The wise boar replied: “I wish only to have my body restored to me like as it was before, and to have the lioness that died of hunger restored to life again, that she may satisfy her hunger with my body and blood.” Who acts: wise boar, body, reverence, lioness. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise boar, body, reverence, lioness), 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:pg74064:16:17 # text = The wise boar replied: “I wish only to have my body restored to me like as it was before, and to have the lioness that died of hunger restored to life again, that she may satisfy her hunger with my body and blood.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 boar boar NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 6 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 restored restore VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 ccomp _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ _ 17 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 before before ADV RB _ 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 lioness lioness NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 nsubj _ _ 29 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 restored restore VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 again again ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 satisfy satisfy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the wise boar | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | the wise boar *= boar* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 3 | **have** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **restore** *in a quote* | past | my body | | the wise boar *= boar* | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | | 5 | **like** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **is** *not said to happen, in a quote* | past | reverence | | | | | before *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **have** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | the lioness | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lioness=Patient | | 8 | **die** *in a quote* | past | the lioness | | | | again | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer | | 9 | **restore** *in a quote* | participle | | hunger *not said here* | life | | | | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to life=Recipient | | 10 | **satisfy** *in a quote* | may | lioness | lioness's hunger | | | | with my body and blood | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hunger=Theme with body=Instrument | | 11 | **hunger** *in a quote* | | lioness | | | | | | nom hunger «state intransitive»: poss=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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/18/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/)