The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 89
Thus those four persons, one and all, dwelt together in unity and concord all their days, and when their days were come to an end, passed away according to their deeds.
What happens: dwell, come, pass away, accord · To what, where: unity, days, four persons
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 persons | advmod |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 persons | det |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 persons | nummod |
| 4 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 persons | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 all | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 one | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dwelt | punct |
| 10 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 one | conj |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 dwelt | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 unity | case |
| 13 | unity | unity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dwelt | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 concord | cc |
| 15 | concord | concord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 unity | conj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 days | det:predet |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 days | nmod:poss |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dwelt | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 come | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 come | advmod |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 days | nmod:poss |
| 23 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux:pass |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 persons | acl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 end | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 end | det |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 passed | punct |
| 30 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 persons | acl |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 passed | advmod |
| 32 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 deeds | case |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 according | fixed |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 35 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 passed | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 persons | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | participle | unity and concord | day | together property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in unity=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past · passive | unity's days | to a end | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass away | participle | that four persons not said here | accord unity's deeds; away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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