The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 139
Thus, by reason of that wealth, every one of those men came to ruin.
Who acts: one · What happens: come, ruin
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 reason | case |
| 4 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wealth | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 wealth | det |
| 7 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reason | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reason | punct |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 men | case |
| 12 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 men | det |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 ruin | mark |
| 16 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | every one of that men | by reason of that wealth; thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ruin | to-infinitive | every one of that men not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: 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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