The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 92
Then did the noble-hearted Jīmūta-vāhana make the following Earnest Wish: “May I, by the sacrifice of my own body and blood, obtain Supreme Enlightenment!”
Who acts: hearted Jīmūta · What happens: make, follow, obtain, sacrifice · To what, where: following Earnest Wish, Supreme Enlightenment, own body · 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 (hearted 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Jīmūta | det |
| 4 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hearted | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 noble | punct |
| 6 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Jīmūta | amod |
| 7 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 make | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 vāhana | punct |
| 9 | vāhana | vāhana | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 Jīmūta | dep |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Wish | det |
| 12 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 Wish | amod |
| 13 | Earnest | Earnest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Wish | compound |
| 14 | Wish | Wish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 sacrifice | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 sacrifice | punct |
| 17 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 sacrifice | aux |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 sacrifice | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sacrifice | punct |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 sacrifice | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sacrifice | det |
| 22 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 obtain | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 body | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 body | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 body | amod |
| 26 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sacrifice | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 blood | cc |
| 28 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 body | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 obtain | punct |
| 30 | obtain | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | parataxis |
| 31 | Supreme | supreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Enlightenment | amod |
| 32 | Enlightenment | enlightenment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 obtain | obj |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · do-support | the hearted Jīmūta | the following Earnest Wish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | obtain in a quote | present | Supreme Enlightenment | by the sacrifice I of my own body and blood | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset enlightenment=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sacrifice in a quote | my own body and blood | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: of=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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