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title: Then did the noble-hearted Jīmūta-vāhana make the following Earnest… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Then did the noble-hearted Jīmūta-vāhana make the following Earnest Wish: “May I, by the sacrifice of my own body and blood, obtain Supreme Enlightenment!” Who acts: hearted Jīmūta. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 92

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Then did the noble-hearted Jīmūta-vāhana make the following Earnest Wish: “May I, by the sacrifice of my own body and blood, obtain Supreme Enlightenment!”

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**Who acts:** hearted Jīmūta · **What happens:** make, follow, obtain, sacrifice · **To what, where:** following Earnest Wish, Supreme Enlightenment, own body · **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 (hearted Jīmūta), 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:pg74064:16:96
# text = Then did the noble-hearted Jīmūta-vāhana make the following Earnest Wish: “May I, by the sacrifice of my own body and blood, obtain Supreme Enlightenment!”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Jīmūta	Jīmūta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	vāhana	vāhana	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	7	dep	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
13	Earnest	Earnest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Wish	Wish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	obtain	obtain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
31	Supreme	supreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	Enlightenment	enlightenment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · do-support | the hearted Jīmūta | the following Earnest Wish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **obtain** *in a quote* | present |  | Supreme Enlightenment |  |  |  | by the sacrifice  I of my own body and blood | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset enlightenment=Theme |
| 4 | **sacrifice** *in a quote* |  |  | my own body and blood |  |  |  |  | nom sacrifice «act transitive»: of=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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