The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 52
Thereupon Jīmūta-vāhana, with his father and mother, went to the Malaya mountain, and took up his abode in a forest-hermitage, the dwelling of the fairy-magicians, the Siddhas, where the brooks were hidden by the sandalwood trees, and devoted himself to the care of his father and mother.
Who acts: Jīmūta vāhana, sandalwood trees, father · What happens: go, take up, hide, devote, care · To what, where: Malaya mountain, abode, forest hermitage, brooks, vāhana, care
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, sandalwood trees, father), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 4 vāhana | advmod |
| 2 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 vāhana | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jīmūta | punct |
| 4 | vāhana | vāhana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 father | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 father | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vāhana | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mother | cc |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 father | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 vāhana | punct |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 mountain | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountain | det |
| 15 | Malaya | Malaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 mountain | compound |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 took | cc |
| 19 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 took | compound:prt |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 abode | nmod:poss |
| 22 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hermitage | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hermitage | det |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hermitage | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 forest | punct |
| 27 | hermitage | hermitage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 took | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dwelling | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dwelling | det |
| 30 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hermitage | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 magicians | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 magicians | det |
| 33 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 magicians | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 fairy | punct |
| 35 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 dwelling | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Siddhas | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Siddhas | det |
| 38 | Siddhas | Siddhas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 dwelling | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 hidden | punct |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 44 hidden | advmod |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 brooks | det |
| 42 | brooks | brook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 hidden | aux:pass |
| 44 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 Siddhas | acl:relcl |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 48 trees | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 trees | det |
| 47 | sandalwood | sandalwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 trees | compound |
| 48 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 hidden | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 devoted | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 devoted | cc |
| 51 | devoted | devote | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 took | conj |
| 52 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 51 devoted | obj |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 care | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 care | det |
| 55 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 devoted | obl |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 father | case |
| 57 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 father | nmod:poss |
| 58 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 care | nmod |
| 59 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 mother | cc |
| 60 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 father | conj |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Jīmūta vāhana | the Malaya mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | take up | past | vāhana's abode | a forest hermitage | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent abode=Value in hermitage=Location | ||||
| 3 | hide | past · passive | the sandalwood trees | the brooks | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | devote | past | vāhana | to the care of vāhana's father and mother goal | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to care=Goal | ||||
| 5 | care | vāhana's father and mother | nom care «act 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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