The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 22
The quail went there, and mounting a big clod, stood and cried to the hawk: “Come now, hawk!”
Who acts: quail · What happens: go, mount, stand, cry, come · To what, where: big clod, hawk · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quail), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 quail | det |
| 2 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 7 | mounting | mount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stood | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 clod | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 clod | amod |
| 10 | clod | clod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mounting | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mounting | punct |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cried | cc |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stood | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 hawk | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hawk | det |
| 17 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Come | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Come | punct |
| 20 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 Come | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hawk | punct |
| 23 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Come | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 hawk | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the quail | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mount | gerund | a big clod | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clod=Patient | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | the quail not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the quail not said here | the hawk | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hawk=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | infinitive | the quail not said here | hawk | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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