The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 199

For many centuries, it has been a common belief in India that when a human being dies, he is at once born again.

Who acts: change, that · What happens: be, die, bear · To what, where: common belief, India, Gotama

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 (change, that), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 centuries	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 centuries	amod
3	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 belief	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 centuries	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 belief	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 belief	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 belief	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 belief	det
9	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 belief	amod
10	belief	belief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 India	case
12	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 belief	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 dies	nsubj
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 dies	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 human	det
16	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dies	nsubj
17	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 dies	nsubj
18	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 belief	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 born	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 born	nsubj:pass
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 born	aux:pass
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 born	obl
24	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 dies	advcl
25	again	again	ADV	_	24 born	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 belief	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present · perfect	change	a common belief	India	century	tree rules
2	die	present	that				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	bear	present · passive		Gotama		again	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «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.

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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 199

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 199