The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 35
As for wealth, if it be not used for the benefit of others, it is like lightning which for an instant stings the eye, and then flickers and vanishes.
Who acts: wealth · What happens: not use, be, sting, flicker, vanish · To what, where: wealth, lightning
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 (wealth), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 wealth | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lightning | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 used | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 used | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 used | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 used | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 used | advmod |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wealth | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 benefit | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 benefit | det |
| 12 | benefit | benefit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 used | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 others | case |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 benefit | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wealth | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lightning | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 lightning | cop |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 lightning | case |
| 19 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 stings | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 instant | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 instant | det |
| 23 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stings | obl |
| 24 | stings | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 lightning | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eye | det |
| 26 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stings | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 flickers | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 flickers | cc |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 flickers | advmod |
| 30 | flickers | flicker | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 lightning | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 vanishes | cc |
| 32 | vanishes | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 flickers | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 lightning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not use a condition, not said to happen | infinitive · passive | wealth not said here | wealth | for the benefit of others | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for benefit=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | is | present | wealth | like lightning; as wealth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sting | present | lightning | for a instant; the eye obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer eye=Result | ||||
| 4 | flicker | present | then | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | vanish | present | 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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