The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 113

Then Jīmūta-vāhana with joy and delight went up to the old woman and said: “Mother, I will deliver your son!”

Who acts: Jīmūta vāhana · What happens: go up, say, deliver · To what, where: Mother, son · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Jīmūta vāhana), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 vāhana	advmod
2	Jīmūta	Jīmūta	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 vāhana	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Jīmūta	punct
4	vāhana	vāhana	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 joy	case
6	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vāhana	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 delight	cc
8	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 joy	conj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 went	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 woman	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Mother	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Mother	punct
19	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 deliver	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 deliver	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 deliver	aux
23	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 son	nmod:poss
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 deliver	obj
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 deliver	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 deliver	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go up	past	Jīmūta vāhana with joy and delight		to the old woman	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	say speech: express	past	Jīmūta vāhana with joy and delight not said here	Mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	deliver in a quote	future	Jīmūta vāhana with joy and delight = vāhana	your son		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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 113

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 113