--- title: And while the griffin was devouring his body and blood, he uttered t… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: And while the griffin was devouring his body and blood, he uttered the following Earnest Wish: “May my body and blood be offered thus in every state of my existence, and may I not obtain rebirth in heaven or deliverance from the round of existences if thereby I shall be deprived of the opportunity o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/17/11/) [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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/17/) / 11 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 11 And while the griffin was devouring his body and blood, he uttered the following Earnest Wish: “May my body and blood be offered thus in every state of my existence, and may I not obtain rebirth in heaven or deliverance from the round of existences if thereby I shall be deprived of the opportunity of doing good to my neighbor!” **Who acts:** griffin, opportunity, my · **What happens:** devour, utter, follow, may, offer, not obtain · **To what, where:** body, following Earnest Wish, state, rebirth, heaven, griffin · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (griffin, opportunity, my), 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:pg74064:17:11 # text = And while the griffin was devouring his body and blood, he uttered the following Earnest Wish: “May my body and blood be offered thus in every state of my existence, and may I not obtain rebirth in heaven or deliverance from the round of existences if thereby I shall be deprived of the opportunity of doing good to my neighbor!” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 2 while while SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 griffin griffin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 devouring devour VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 uttered utter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 amod _ _ 16 Earnest Earnest PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 Wish Wish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 May may VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 offered offer VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 27 thus thus ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 existence existence NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 obtain obtain VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 40 rebirth rebirth NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 43 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 deliverance deliverance NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 conj _ _ 45 from from ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 round round NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 existences existence NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nmod _ _ 50 if if SCONJ IN _ 55 mark _ _ 51 thereby thereby ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 52 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 53 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 55 aux _ _ 54 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 55 aux:pass _ _ 55 deprived deprive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 advcl _ _ 56 of of ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 58 opportunity opportunity NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obl _ _ 59 of of SCONJ IN _ 60 mark _ _ 60 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 58 acl _ _ 61 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 obj _ _ 62 to to ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 63 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 64 nmod:poss _ _ 64 neighbor neighbor NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ! ! PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 66 ” " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **devour** | past · progressive | the griffin | griffin's body and blood | | | | | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | | 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | griffin | the following Earnest Wish | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **may** *in a quote* | infinitive | | my body and blood | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **offer** *in a quote* | infinitive · passive | | | | every state of my existence | | thus *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)» | | 6 | **not** **obtain** *in a quote* | may | griffin | rebirth | | heaven or deliverance from the round of existences | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rebirth=Theme | | 7 | **deprive** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | shall · passive | | griffin | | | | of the opportunity; thereby *property* | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source of opportunity=Theme | | 8 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | the opportunity *not said here* | good | | | | to my neighbor | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | | 9 | **exist** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom existence «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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/17/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/17/12/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/17/)