The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 100

And the old woman, overwhelmed with the burden of her grief, began to look again and again at the youth, and to lament her misfortune in the following words: “Alas, my son! thou that wast obtained by me at the cost of a hundred bitter pangs!

Who acts: old woman, Jīmūta · What happens: overwhelm, begin, look, lament, follow, obtain · To what, where: old woman, misfortune, following words, thou, cost, grief

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, Jīmūta), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 began	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 overwhelmed	punct
6	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 woman	acl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 burden	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 burden	det
9	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 overwhelmed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 grief	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grief	nmod:poss
12	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 burden	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 woman	punct
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 look	mark
16	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	xcomp
17	again	again	ADV	_	16 look	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 again	cc
19	again	again	ADV	_	17 again	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 youth	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 youth	det
22	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 look	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lament	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lament	cc
25	to	to	PART	_	26 lament	mark
26	lament	lament	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 began	conj
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 misfortune	nmod:poss
28	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lament	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 words	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 words	det
31	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 words	amod
32	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 lament	obl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 Alas	punct
34	“	"	PUNCT	_	35 Alas	punct
35	Alas	ala	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 words	appos
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 son	punct
37	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 son	nmod:poss
38	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Alas	conj
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 Alas	punct
40	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	43 obtained	nsubj:pass
41	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 obtained	nsubj:pass
42	wast	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 obtained	aux:pass
43	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 words	acl:relcl
44	by	by	ADP	_	45 me	case
45	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 obtained	obl
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 cost	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 cost	det
48	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 obtained	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	53 pangs	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 hundred	det
51	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 pangs	nummod
52	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 pangs	amod
53	pangs	pang	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 cost	nmod
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overwhelm	participle		the old woman not said here			with the burden of woman's grief	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	begin	past	the old woman					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	look	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here			again; again	at the youth	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at youth=Theme
4	lament	to-infinitive	the old woman not said here	youth's misfortune	the following words			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer misfortune=Stimulus
5	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	obtain in a quote	past · passive	Jīmūta	thou	the cost of hundred bitter pangs		the following words nsubj:pass	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
7	burden			woman's grief				nom burden «cognition transitive»: of=patient
8	cost in a quote			hundred bitter pangs				nom cost «possession 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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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 100