The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 50
And Jīmūta-ketu the fairy-king said to Jīmūta-vāhana the fairy-prince his son: “Then will I too go, my son.
Who acts: Jīmūta · What happens: say, go · 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), 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 | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 2 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ketu | punct |
| 4 | ketu | ketu | X | Foreign=Yes | 2 Jīmūta | dep |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 fairy | punct |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Jīmūta | appos |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Jīmūta | case |
| 11 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jīmūta | punct |
| 13 | vāhana | vāhana | X | Foreign=Yes | 11 Jīmūta | flat:foreign |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 prince | det |
| 15 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prince | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 fairy | punct |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 go | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 go | punct |
| 22 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 go | advmod |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | aux |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 go | nsubj |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 son | punct |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 son | nmod:poss |
| 29 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | vocative |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Jīmūta | the fairy prince nsubj; Jīmūta's son nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | Jīmūta | then | my son vocative | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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