The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 201
If he has lived an evil life, he will be born again as a ghost, or as an animal, or in some place of torment.
Who acts: Gotama · What happens: live, bear · To what, where: evil life, 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 (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 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 life | det |
| 6 | evil | evil | 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 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 ghost | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ghost | det |
| 16 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 born | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 animal | punct |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 animal | cc |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 animal | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 animal | det |
| 21 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 born | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 place | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 place | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 place | det |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 animal | appos |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 torment | case |
| 28 | torment | torment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 place | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | 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 evil life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=Location | ||||
| 2 | bear | future · passive | Gotama | again | as a ghost; a animal advcl | 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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