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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 89

When Jīmūta-vāhana, the fairy-prince, embodiment of generosity and compassion towards all living beings, heard this story from the lips of his companion, he was pricked to the heart.

Who acts: Jīmūta · What happens: live, hear, prick · To what, where: story, lips, Jīmūta

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

advmodnsubjpunctlistpunctdetcompoundpunctappospunctapposcasenmodccconjcasedetamodnmodpunctadvcldetobjcasedetnmodcasenmod:possnmodpunctnsubjaux:passcasedetoblpunctrootWhenADVJīmūtaPROPN-PUNCTvāhanaNOUN,PUNCTtheDETfairyNOUN-PUNCTprinceNOUN,PUNCTembodimentNOUNofADPgenerosityNOUNandCCONJcompassionNOUNtowardsADPallDETlivingVERBbeingsNOUN,PUNCTheardVERBthisDETstoryNOUNfromADPtheDETlipsNOUNofADPhisPRONcompanionNOUN,PUNCThePRONwasAUXprickedVERBtoADPtheDETheartNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int21 heardadvmod
2JīmūtaJīmūtaPROPNNumber=Sing21 heardnsubj
3--PUNCT_2 Jīmūtapunct
4vāhanavāhanaNOUNNumber=Sing2 Jīmūtalist
5,,PUNCT_9 princepunct
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 princedet
7fairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing9 princecompound
8--PUNCT_7 fairypunct
9princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing2 Jīmūtaappos
10,,PUNCT_11 embodimentpunct
11embodimentembodimentNOUNNumber=Sing2 Jīmūtaappos
12ofofADP_13 generositycase
13generositygenerosityNOUNNumber=Sing11 embodimentnmod
14andandCCONJ_15 compassioncc
15compassioncompassionNOUNNumber=Sing13 generosityconj
16towardstowardsADP_19 beingscase
17allallDETPronType=Tot19 beingsdet
18livingliveVERBVerbForm=Ger19 beingsamod
19beingsbeingNOUNNumber=Plur11 embodimentnmod
20,,PUNCT_2 Jīmūtapunct
21heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 prickedadvcl
22thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem23 storydet
23storystoryNOUNNumber=Sing21 heardobj
24fromfromADP_26 lipscase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 lipsdet
26lipslipNOUNNumber=Plur23 storynmod
27ofofADP_29 companioncase
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 companionnmod:poss
29companioncompanionNOUNNumber=Sing26 lipsnmod
30,,PUNCT_21 heardpunct
31hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 prickednsubj
32wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 prickedaux:pass
33prickedprickVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
34totoADP_36 heartcase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 heartdet
36heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing33 prickedobl
37..PUNCT_33 prickedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1livegerundvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2hearpastJīmūta vāhanathis storythe lips of Jīmūta's companionvn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent story=Topic from lip=Source
3prickpast · passiveJīmūtato the heartvn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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