The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 32
A hawk flying strong, attacked with violence A quail standing in his feeding-ground, and thus met death.
Who acts: hawk, quail · What happens: fly, attack, stand, meet · To what, where: hawk, feeding ground, death
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 (hawk, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hawk | det |
| 2 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 hawk | acl |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 flying | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 attacked | punct |
| 6 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 violence | case |
| 8 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attacked | obl |
| 9 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 quail | det |
| 10 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 violence | appos |
| 11 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 quail | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ground | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ground | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 feeding | punct |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 standing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 met | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 met | cc |
| 19 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 20 met | advmod |
| 20 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 attacked | parataxis |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 met | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 attacked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | a hawk not said here | strong property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attack | participle · passive | a hawk | with violence | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | a quail not said here | hawk's feeding ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ground=Location | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | death | thus property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent |
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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