The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 81
_ Eclipses of the sun and moon were supposed to be due to the fact that they were swallowed from time to time by a demon named Rāhu, the Seizer.
Who acts: demon · What happens: suppose, be, swallow, name, eclipse · To what, where: Eclipses, demon, sun
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (demon), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eclipses | punct |
| 2 | Eclipses | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 supposed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sun | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Eclipses | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 moon | cc |
| 7 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sun | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 supposed | aux:pass |
| 9 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fact | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fact | cop |
| 12 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 15 fact | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 due | fixed |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fact | det |
| 15 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 supposed | xcomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 swallowed | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 19 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 fact | acl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swallowed | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 time | nmod |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 demon | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 demon | det |
| 26 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 swallowed | obl:agent |
| 27 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 demon | acl |
| 28 | Rāhu | Rāhu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 named | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Seizer | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Seizer | det |
| 31 | Seizer | Seizer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Rāhu | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 supposed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | past · passive | Eclipses of the sun and moon | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | due the fact | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | swallow | past · passive | a demon | Eclipses = eclipse | time | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 4 | name | participle | a demon not said here | Rāhu and the Seizer xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | eclipse | the sun and moon | nom eclipse «event 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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