The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 144
Having given alms and having performed the other works of merit, when his term of life was come to an end, he also fulfilled the Path to Heaven.
Who acts: king, merit · What happens: have, give, perform, come, fulfil, work · To what, where: given alms, performed other works, term, Path, life
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, merit), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 fulfilled | advcl |
| 2 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 alms | amod |
| 3 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Having | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 having | cc |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Having | conj |
| 6 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 works | amod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 works | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 works | amod |
| 9 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 having | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 merit | case |
| 11 | merit | merit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 works | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 come | advmod |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 term | nmod:poss |
| 15 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 term | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux:pass |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 works | acl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fulfilled | nsubj |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 fulfilled | advmod |
| 26 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Path | det |
| 28 | Path | Path | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 fulfilled | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Heaven | case |
| 30 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Path | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 fulfilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | king not said here | given alms | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alm=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | have | gerund | king not said here | the performed other works of merit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient | ||||
| 4 | perform | participle | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | come | past · passive | king's term of life | to a end | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fulfil | past | king | the Path | to Heaven | tree rules | |||
| 7 | work | merit | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | term | king | life | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent 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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