The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 128
When their life was come to an end, they attained the goal of a heavenly world.
Who acts: Precepts · What happens: come, attain · To what, where: life, goal
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Precepts), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 life | nmod:poss |
| 3 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux:pass |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 attained | parataxis |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 attained | nsubj |
| 11 | attained | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 goal | det |
| 13 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attained | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 world | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 world | det |
| 16 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 world | amod |
| 17 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 goal | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 attained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · passive | Precepts's life | to a end | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attain | past | Precepts = precept | the goal of a heavenly world | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goal=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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