--- title: When Jīmūta-vāhana, the fairy-prince, embodiment of generosity and c… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: When Jīmūta-vāhana, the fairy-prince, embodiment of generosity and compassion towards all living beings, heard this story from the lips of his companion, he was pricked to the heart. Who acts: Jīmūta. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16, with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/89/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/) / 89 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 89 When Jīmūta-vāhana, the fairy-prince, embodiment of generosity and compassion towards all living beings, heard this story from the lips of his companion, he was pricked to the heart. **Who acts:** Jīmūta · **What happens:** live, hear, prick · **To what, where:** story, lips, Jīmūta 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), 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:pg74064:16:93 # text = When Jīmūta-vāhana, the fairy-prince, embodiment of generosity and compassion towards all living beings, heard this story from the lips of his companion, he was pricked to the heart. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 2 Jīmūta Jīmūta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 vāhana vāhana NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 list _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 fairy fairy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 embodiment embodiment NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 generosity generosity NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 compassion compassion NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 towards towards ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ _ 18 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ _ 19 beings being NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 21 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 22 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 det _ _ 23 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 companion companion NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 pricked prick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | gerund | | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hear** | past | Jīmūta vāhana | this story | | the lips of Jīmūta's companion | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent story=Topic from lip=Source | | 3 | **prick** | past · passive | | Jīmūta | | | | to the heart | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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. - ← previous: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/88/) - next →: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/90/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/16/)