The grateful elephant, Opening, part 8, sentence 59
If in this state of existence also, so long as you live, you do evil deeds, you will go from darkness to darkness.
Who acts: you · What happens: live, do, go · To what, where: evil deeds, state
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 (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 state | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 state | det |
| 4 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 existence | case |
| 6 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 state | nmod |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 state | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 long | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 state | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 live | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 live | nsubj |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 long | parataxis |
| 17 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 deeds | amod |
| 18 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 do | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 state | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | aux |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 darkness | case |
| 24 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 darkness | case |
| 26 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 go | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | you | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | present | you | evil deeds | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go | future | you | this state of existence | from darkness; to darkness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from darkness=Initial_Location to darkness=Destination |
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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