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The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 10

And Jīmūta-vāhana’s crest-jewel was torn from his head, and drops of blood fell from his body, as the griffin carried him through the air.

Who acts: drops, griffin · What happens: tear, fall, carry · To what, where: vāhana crest jewel, body, hero, air

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drops, griffin), 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

cccompoundpunctcompoundcasecompoundpunctnsubj:passaux:passcasenmod:possoblpunctccnsubjcasenmodconjcasenmod:possoblpunctmarkdetnsubjconjobjcasedetoblpunctrootAndCCONJJīmūtaPROPN-PUNCTvāhanaNOUN’sPARTcrestNOUN-PUNCTjewelNOUNwasAUXtornVERBfromADPhisPRONheadNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJdropsNOUNofADPbloodNOUNfellVERBfromADPhisPRONbodyNOUN,PUNCTasSCONJtheDETgriffinNOUNcarriedVERBhimPRONthroughADPtheDETairNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_10 torncc
2JīmūtaJīmūtaPROPNNumber=Sing4 vāhanacompound
3--PUNCT_2 Jīmūtapunct
4vāhanavāhanaNOUNNumber=Sing8 jewelcompound
5’s'sPART_4 vāhanacase
6crestcrestNOUNNumber=Sing8 jewelcompound
7--PUNCT_6 crestpunct
8jeweljewelNOUNNumber=Sing10 tornnsubj:pass
9wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 tornaux:pass
10torntearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
11fromfromADP_13 headcase
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 headnmod:poss
13headheadNOUNNumber=Sing10 tornobl
14,,PUNCT_19 fellpunct
15andandCCONJ_19 fellcc
16dropsdropNOUNNumber=Plur19 fellnsubj
17ofofADP_18 bloodcase
18bloodbloodNOUNNumber=Sing16 dropsnmod
19fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 tornconj
20fromfromADP_22 bodycase
21hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 bodynmod:poss
22bodybodyNOUNNumber=Sing19 fellobl
23,,PUNCT_27 carriedpunct
24asasSCONJ_27 carriedmark
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 griffindet
26griffingriffinNOUNNumber=Sing27 carriednsubj
27carriedcarryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 fellconj
28himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 carriedobj
29throughthroughADP_31 aircase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 airdet
31airairNOUNNumber=Sing27 carriedobl
32..PUNCT_10 tornpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tearpast · passivevāhana crest jewelfrom griffin's headvn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from head=Co-Patient
2fallpastdrops of bloodgriffin's bodyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from body=Initial_Location
3carrypastthe griffinherothe airvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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