The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 17
As Jīmūta-vāhana, prince of the fairies (26), he offers the sacrifice of his body and blood for the welfare of all living beings.
Who acts: Gotama · What happens: offer, live, sacrifice · To what, where: sacrifice, body
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gotama), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 vāhana | case |
| 2 | Jīmūta | Jīmūta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 vāhana | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jīmūta | punct |
| 4 | vāhana | vāhana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offers | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 prince | punct |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 vāhana | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fairies | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fairies | det |
| 9 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 prince | nmod |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 26 | punct |
| 11 | 26 | 26 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 fairies | appos |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 26 | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 vāhana | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 offers | nsubj |
| 15 | offers | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sacrifice | det |
| 17 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offers | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 body | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 body | nmod:poss |
| 20 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sacrifice | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 blood | cc |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 body | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 welfare | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 welfare | det |
| 25 | welfare | welfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offers | obl |
| 26 | of | of | 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 | 25 welfare | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 offers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | present | Gotama | the sacrifice of Gotama's body and blood | as Jīmūta vāhana; for the welfare of all living beings goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent sacrifice=Theme for welfare=Goal | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | sacrifice | Gotama's 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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