The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 200
If he has lived a good life, he will be born again on earth as the child of a king or of a rich man, or in one of the heavens as a god.
Who acts: Gotama · What happens: live, bear · To what, where: good life, Gotama, earth
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 (Gotama), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 lived | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | aux |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 born | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 life | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 born | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 born | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 born | aux:pass |
| 12 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 born | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 earth | case |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 born | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 child | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 born | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 king | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 child | nmod |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 man | cc |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 man | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 25 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 child | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 one | punct |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 one | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 one | case |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 born | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 heavens | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 heavens | det |
| 33 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 one | nmod |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 god | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 god | det |
| 36 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 heavens | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live a condition, not said to happen | present · perfect | Gotama | a good life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | ||||
| 2 | bear | future · passive | Gotama | earth | again | as the child of a king or a rich man; one of the heavens as a god conj | 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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