The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 33
For I know that the good things of this world endure but for a short while, and then perish and vanish utterly.
Who acts: I, good things · What happens: know, endure, perish, vanish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, good things), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 know | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 perish | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 endure | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 things | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 endure | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 things | nmod |
| 11 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | ccomp |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 while | cc |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 while | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 while | det |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 while | amod |
| 16 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 endure | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 perish | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 perish | advmod |
| 20 | perish | perish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 vanish | cc |
| 22 | vanish | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 perish | conj |
| 23 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 22 vanish | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 perish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | endure | infinitive | the good things of this world | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | perish | present | then | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | vanish | present | utterly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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