The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 202
According to this belief, every person has been born and has lived and died so many times that it would be impossible to count the number.
What happens: accord, bear, live, die, be, count · To what, where: person, number
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: 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 belief | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 belief | det |
| 4 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 born | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 belief | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 person | det |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 born | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 born | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 born | aux:pass |
| 10 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lived | cc |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lived | aux |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 born | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 died | cc |
| 15 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 born | conj |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 many | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 times | amod |
| 18 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 died | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 impossible | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 impossible | expl |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 impossible | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 impossible | cop |
| 23 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 died | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 count | mark |
| 25 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 impossible | csubj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 number | det |
| 27 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 count | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | bear | present · perfect · passive | every person | accord this belief | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | live | present · perfect | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | die | past | time | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | is | would | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | count | to-infinitive | the number | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme |
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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