The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 40

So that monk went there, plunged into that forest-grove, and throughout the watches of the night cried out: “Let the pretty birds hear me, as many as roost in this forest-grove!

Who acts: monk, watches, pretty birds · What happens: go, plunge, cry out, let, hear · To what, where: forest grove, many roost, watches · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (monk, watches, pretty 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 monk	det
3	monk	monk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 plunged	punct
7	plunged	plunge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 went	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	12 grove	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 grove	det
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grove	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 forest	punct
12	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plunged	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cried	cc
15	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	17 watches	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 watches	det
17	watches	watch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cried	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 night	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 night	det
20	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 watches	nmod
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 cried	compound:prt
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 Let	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 Let	punct
25	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 cried	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 birds	det
27	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 birds	amod
28	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hear	nsubj
29	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 Let	xcomp
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 hear	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 roost	punct
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 many	advmod
33	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 roost	amod
34	as	as	ADP	_	33 many	fixed
35	roost	roost	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Let	obl
36	in	in	ADP	_	40 grove	case
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 grove	det
38	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 grove	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 forest	punct
40	grove	grove	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 roost	nmod
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	that monk		there	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	plunge	participle	that monk not said here		that forest grove	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into grove=Initial_Location
3	cry out speech: express	past	the watches of the night			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	let in a quote	infinitive	the watches of the night not said here	many roost in this forest grove		tree rules
5	hear in a quote	present	the pretty birds	the watches of the night = watch		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus

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 40

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 40