The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 92
After death, upon dissolution of the body, they were reborn in a place of bliss, in a heavenly world.
What happens: reborn, dissolve · To what, where: Precepts, place, body
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: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 death | case |
| 2 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reborn | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dissolution | punct |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 dissolution | case |
| 5 | dissolution | dissolution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 death | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 body | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dissolution | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 death | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reborn | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 reborn | aux:pass |
| 12 | reborn | reborn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reborn | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bliss | case |
| 17 | bliss | bliss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 place | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 world | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 21 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 world | amod |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reborn | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 reborn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reborn | past · passive | Precepts = precept | a place of bliss | after death | in a heavenly world | tree rules | ||
| 2 | dissolve | the body | nom dissolution «process transitive»: of=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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