The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 40
But the relatives of Jīmūta-ketu, seeing that his throne was firmly established by the glory of his son, were moved to jealousy and became hostile to him.
Who acts: glory, son · What happens: see, establish, move, become, glory · To what, where: throne, relatives, jealousy, hostile, vāhana · 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 (glory, son), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 moved | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 relatives | det |
| 3 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ketu | case |
| 5 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ketu | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Jīmūta | punct |
| 7 | ketu | ketu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 relatives | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seeing | punct |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 relatives | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 established | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 throne | nmod:poss |
| 12 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 established | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 established | aux:pass |
| 14 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 15 established | advmod |
| 15 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 seeing | ccomp |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 glory | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 glory | det |
| 18 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 established | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 son | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 glory | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 relatives | punct |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 moved | aux:pass |
| 24 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 jealousy | case |
| 26 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 moved | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 became | cc |
| 28 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 moved | conj |
| 29 | hostile | hostile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 became | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 became | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | establish | past · passive | the glory of vāhana's son | vāhana's throne | firmly property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | move | past · passive | the relatives of Jīmūta ketu | jealousy | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to jealousy=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | become | past | hostile | vāhana | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | glory | vāhana's son | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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.
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