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title: And Jīmūta-vāhana roamed about alone, intent on carrying out the res… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And Jīmūta-vāhana roamed about alone, intent on carrying out the resolution which he had formed. Who acts: Jīmūta vāhana, intent. 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 94

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And Jīmūta-vāhana roamed about alone, intent on carrying out the resolution which he had formed.

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**Who acts:** Jīmūta vāhana, intent · **What happens:** roam, carry out, form · **To what, where:** intent, resolution

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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, intent), 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:pg74064:16:98
# text = And Jīmūta-vāhana roamed about alone, intent on carrying out the resolution which he had formed.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
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	5	nsubj	_	_
5	roamed	roam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	intent	intent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	resolution	resolution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roam** | past | Jīmūta vāhana | intent |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **carry out** | gerund | intent *not said here* | the resolution |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolution=Eventuality |
| 3 | **form** | past · perfect · passive |  | the resolution |  |  |  | vāhana *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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