The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 193
But as for me, I have not long to live; before these things shall come to pass, death will be upon me.
Who acts: I, things, death · What happens: have, live, come, pass, be
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, things, death), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 have | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 me | case |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 2 as | fixed |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 me | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 have | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 live | mark |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 long | advcl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 come | punct |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 come | mark |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 things | det |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 come | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 come | aux |
| 17 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 have | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 pass | mark |
| 19 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 come | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 me | punct |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 me | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 me | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 me | cop |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 me | case |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 pass | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | as me; long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | shall | this things | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pass | to-infinitive | this things not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | future | death | upon me | tree rules |
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.
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