The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 18
The news of his death and of how he came to die spread throughout the monastery.
Who acts: news · What happens: come, die, spread · To what, where: monastery
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 (news), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 death | nmod:poss |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 news | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spread | cc |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 came | case |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 came | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 spread | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 die | mark |
| 12 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | xcomp |
| 13 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 16 monastery | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 monastery | det |
| 16 | monastery | monastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spread | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | news | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die | to-infinitive | news not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | spread | participle | the news of news's death | the monastery | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme throughout monastery=Location | ||||
| 4 | die | news | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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