The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 24
But when the quail knew: “This hawk is coming for me with a vengeance!” he turned and entered a crack in that very clod.
Who acts: quail, hawk · What happens: know, come, turn, enter · To what, where: crack, clod · 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, hawk), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 turned | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 knew | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 quail | det |
| 4 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 turned | advcl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 coming | punct |
| 8 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 hawk | det |
| 9 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coming | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 coming | aux |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 knew | ccomp |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 coming | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 vengeance | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 vengeance | det |
| 16 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 coming | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 coming | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 turned | nsubj |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 entered | cc |
| 22 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 turned | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 crack | det |
| 24 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 entered | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 clod | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 clod | det |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 clod | advmod |
| 28 | clod | clod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 entered | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the quail | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · progressive | this hawk | for the quail = quail; with a vengeance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | hawk | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | enter | past | hawk not said here | a crack | that clod | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme crack=Destination |
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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