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title: Then Jīmūta-vāhana with joy and delight went up to the old woman and… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Jīmūta-vāhana with joy and delight went up to the old woman and said: “Mother, I will deliver your son!” Who acts: Jīmūta vāhana. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 113

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Then Jīmūta-vāhana with joy and delight went up to the old woman and said: “Mother, I will deliver your son!”

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**Who acts:** Jīmūta vāhana · **What happens:** go up, say, deliver · **To what, where:** Mother, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74064:16:117
# text = Then Jīmūta-vāhana with joy and delight went up to the old woman and said: “Mother, I will deliver your son!”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Jīmūta	Jīmūta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	vāhana	vāhana	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
24	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | Jīmūta vāhana with joy and delight |  |  |  |  | to the old woman | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Jīmūta vāhana with joy and delight *not said here* | Mother |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **deliver** *in a quote* | future | Jīmūta vāhana with joy and delight *= vāhana* | your son |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |

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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.

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**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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