The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 21

Now a large flock of birds sought food in that swamp in the daytime, returning to that forest-grove at eventide to roost.

Who acts: birds · What happens: seek, return, roost · To what, where: food, swamp, large flock

This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 flock	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 flock	det
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 flock	amod
4	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 birds	case
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flock	nmod
7	sought	seek	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 birds	acl
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sought	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 swamp	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 swamp	det
11	swamp	swamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sought	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 daytime	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 daytime	det
14	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 swamp	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 returning	punct
16	returning	return	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 flock	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 grove	case
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 grove	det
19	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grove	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 forest	punct
21	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 returning	obl
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 eventide	case
23	eventide	eventide	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grove	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 roost	mark
25	roost	roost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 returning	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flock	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	participle	birds not said here	food	that swamp in the daytime		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Theme in swamp=Location
2	return	gerund				to that forest grove at eventide result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to grove=Result
3	roost	to-infinitive					vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 21