The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 70
As for those three friends, they lived all their lives long with never a break in their friendly relations, and then passed away according to their deeds.
Who acts: friends · What happens: live, pass away, accord
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 (friends), 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 | 5 friends | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 friends | det |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 friends | nummod |
| 5 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friends | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 lives | det:predet |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lives | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 long | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 lived | advmod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 break | case |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 break | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 break | det |
| 16 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 relations | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 relations | nmod:poss |
| 19 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 relations | amod |
| 20 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 break | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 passed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 passed | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 passed | advmod |
| 24 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | conj |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 passed | advmod |
| 26 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 deeds | case |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 according | fixed |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 29 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 passed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | friends = friend | as that three friends; with a break in friends's friendly relations; long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with break=Location | ||||
| 2 | pass away | past | friends = friend not said here | then | accord friends's deeds; away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/7/70/