The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 43
Thereupon that flock of birds, reflecting, “The monk begs feathers, the monk wants feathers,” departed from that forest-grove.
Who acts: monk, feathers · What happens: reflect, beg, want, depart · To what, where: feathers, forest grove, flock · 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, feathers), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 flock | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 flock | det |
| 3 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 birds | case |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flock | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 reflecting | punct |
| 7 | reflecting | reflect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 flock | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 begs | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 begs | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 monk | det |
| 11 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begs | nsubj |
| 12 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 reflecting | parataxis |
| 13 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 begs | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wants | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 monk | det |
| 16 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wants | nsubj |
| 17 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 begs | conj |
| 18 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wants | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 feathers | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 wants | punct |
| 21 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 wants | xcomp |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 grove | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 grove | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grove | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 forest | punct |
| 26 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 departed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flock | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reflect | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | beg speech: request in a quote | present | the monk | feathers | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent feather=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | the monk | feathers | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | depart not said to happen | participle | feathers not said here | that forest grove | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from grove=Initial_Location |
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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