The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 93
At that moment a servant summoned Jīmūta-vāhana’s companion to return home, and Jīmūta-vāhana, embodiment of generosity and compassion towards all living beings, was left alone.
What happens: summon, return, live, leave · To what, where: servant
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 summoned | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 servant | det |
| 5 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 summoned | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 summoned | obj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Jīmūta | punct |
| 9 | vāhana | vāhana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 companion | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 vāhana | case |
| 11 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 summoned | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 return | mark |
| 13 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 summoned | advcl |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 return | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 vāhana | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 vāhana | cc |
| 17 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 vāhana | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Jīmūta | punct |
| 19 | vāhana | vāhana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 summoned | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 embodiment | punct |
| 21 | embodiment | embodiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vāhana | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 generosity | case |
| 23 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 embodiment | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 compassion | cc |
| 25 | compassion | compassion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 generosity | conj |
| 26 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 29 beings | case |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 beings | det |
| 28 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 beings | amod |
| 29 | beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 vāhana | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 left | punct |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 left | aux:pass |
| 32 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 summoned | parataxis |
| 33 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 left | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | participle · passive | a servant | moment | Jīmūta vāhana towards all living beings and embodiment of generosity and compassion obl; Jīmūta obj; vāhana's companion obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | return | to-infinitive | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | leave | past · passive | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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