The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 157
And, monks, the hawk struck his breast against that very clod.
Who acts: monks · What happens: strike · To what, where: breast
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monks), 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 | _ | 7 struck | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 monks | punct |
| 3 | monks | monk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 struck | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 monks | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hawk | det |
| 6 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | nsubj |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 breast | nmod:poss |
| 9 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obj |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 clod | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 clod | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 clod | advmod |
| 13 | clod | clod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struck | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | monks | monk's breast | against that clod; the hawk nsubj | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent breast=Instrument against clod=Patient |
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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