The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 27
When Jīmūta-vāhana was become of age, his father made him crown-prince.
Who acts: father, vāhana · What happens: become, make, crown · To what, where: Jīmūta vāhana, vāhana, prince
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 (father, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 become | mark |
| 2 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 vāhana | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jīmūta | punct |
| 4 | vāhana | vāhana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 become | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 become | aux:pass |
| 6 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 made | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 age | case |
| 8 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 become | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 become | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | crown | crown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 made | xcomp |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 prince | punct |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crown | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past · passive | Jīmūta vāhana | of age | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | make | past | vāhana's father | vāhana | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | crown | infinitive | vāhana not said here | prince | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |
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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