The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 99
And Jīmūta-vāhana stood and listened, melted with pity, eager to know who he might be, and she.
Who acts: Jīmūta vāhana · What happens: stand, listen, melt, know, be · To what, where: youth · 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 vāhana), 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 | _ | 5 stood | cc |
| 2 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 vāhana | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jīmūta | punct |
| 4 | vāhana | vāhana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 listened | cc |
| 7 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 melted | punct |
| 9 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 listened | parataxis |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 pity | case |
| 11 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 melted | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eager | punct |
| 13 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pity | amod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 eager | xcomp |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 be | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 be | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 be | aux |
| 19 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 she | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 she | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Jīmūta vāhana | youth | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | listen | past | Jīmūta vāhana not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | melt | participle | with pity | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with pity=Instrument | |||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | be | might | who nsubj; vāhana nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «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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