The grateful elephant, Opening, part 9, sentence 7
And when his life came to an end, he passed away, fulfilling the Path to Heaven.
Who acts: life · What happens: come, pass away, fulfil · To what, where: end, Path, Heaven
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 passed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 passed | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 passed | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fulfilling | punct |
| 14 | fulfilling | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 passed | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Path | det |
| 16 | Path | Path | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fulfilling | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Heaven | case |
| 18 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 fulfilling | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Buddha's life | to a end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pass away | past | life | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fulfil | gerund | life not said here | the Path | Heaven | tree rules |
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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