--- title: Thereupon Jīmūta-vāhana the fairy-prince said to Jīmūta-ketu the fai… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: Thereupon Jīmūta-vāhana the fairy-prince said to Jīmūta-ketu the fairy-king his father: “Why should we seek to obtain new wealth, or to retain the wealth that we possess? Who acts: Jīmūta, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jīmūta, we), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:16:45 # text = Thereupon Jīmūta-vāhana the fairy-prince said to Jīmūta-ketu the fairy-king his father: “Why should we seek to obtain new wealth, or to retain the wealth that we possess? 1 Thereupon thereupon ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 2 Jīmūta Jīmūta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 vāhana vāhana X FW Foreign=Yes 2 dep _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Jīmūta Jīmūta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ketu ketu X FW Foreign=Yes 11 flat:foreign _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 23 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 seek seek VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 obtain obtain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 retain retain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 obj _ _ 37 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 possess possess VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Jīmūta | | | | | the fairy king *nsubj*; king's father *nsubj*; thereupon *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **seek** *in a quote* | should | we | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **obtain** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | new wealth | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wealth=Theme | | 4 | **retain** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | the wealth | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **possess** *in a quote* | present | we | the wealth | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/44/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/)