--- title: And swooping down, he smote the valiant hero Jīmūta-vāhana with his… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: And swooping down, he smote the valiant hero Jīmūta-vāhana with his beak, and gripping him with his talons, carried him off from that slab of rock; and soaring aloft, flew quickly with him to a peak of the Malaya mountain, to eat him there. Who acts: griffin, valiant hero. A sentence of «The gratefu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/17/9/) [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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/17/) / 9 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 9 And swooping down, he smote the valiant hero Jīmūta-vāhana with his beak, and gripping him with his talons, carried him off from that slab of rock; and soaring aloft, flew quickly with him to a peak of the Malaya mountain, to eat him there. **Who acts:** griffin, valiant hero · **What happens:** swoop down, smite, vāhana, grip, carry off, soar · **To what, where:** griffin, slab This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (griffin, valiant hero), 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:pg74064:17:9 # text = And swooping down, he smote the valiant hero Jīmūta-vāhana with his beak, and gripping him with his talons, carried him off from that slab of rock; and soaring aloft, flew quickly with him to a peak of the Malaya mountain, to eat him there. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 swooping swoop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 3 down down ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 smote smite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 valiant valiant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 hero hero NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 Jīmūta Jīmūta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 11 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 vāhana vāhana NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 gripping grip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 talons talon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 off off ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 29 det _ _ 29 slab slab NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 soaring soar VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 35 aloft aloft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 38 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 peak peak NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 Malaya Malaya PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 compound _ _ 47 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 to to PART TO _ 50 mark _ _ 50 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 51 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 obj _ _ 52 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 50 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swoop down** | gerund | griffin *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **smite** | past | griffin | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **vāhana** | | the valiant hero | | | | | with griffin's beak | tree rules | | 4 | **grip** | gerund | griffin *not said here* | griffin | | | | with griffin's talons | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with talon=Instrument | | 5 | **carry off** | past | griffin *not said here* | griffin | | that slab of rock | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from slab=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **soar** | gerund | | | | | | aloft *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **fly** | past | | | | | | with griffin; to a peak of the Malaya mountain *result*; quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to peak=Result | | 8 | **eat** | to-infinitive | | griffin | | there | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/17/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/17/10/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/17/)