The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 19
Then Jīmūta-vāhana was escorted to the Himālaya, and was sprinkled king over all the kings of the fairies, and his reign endured for a cycle of time.
Who acts: reign · What happens: escort, sprinkle, endure · To what, where: Jīmūta vāhana, Himālaya, king
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 (reign), 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 | 4 vāhana | advmod |
| 2 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 vāhana | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jīmūta | punct |
| 4 | vāhana | vāhana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 escorted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 escorted | aux:pass |
| 6 | escorted | escort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Himālaya | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Himālaya | det |
| 9 | Himālaya | Himālaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 escorted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sprinkled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sprinkled | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sprinkled | aux:pass |
| 13 | sprinkled | sprinkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 escorted | conj |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sprinkled | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 kings | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 kings | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kings | det |
| 18 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sprinkled | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 fairies | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fairies | det |
| 21 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 kings | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 endured | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 endured | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 reign | nmod:poss |
| 25 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 endured | nsubj |
| 26 | endured | endure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 escorted | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 cycle | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 cycle | det |
| 29 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 endured | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cycle | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 escorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escort | past · passive | Jīmūta vāhana | the Himālaya | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to himālaya=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sprinkle | past · passive | king | over all kings of the fairies | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: king=Theme over king=Destination | ||||
| 3 | endure | past | king's reign | for a cycle of time | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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