The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 33
Now when the hawk had thus met his death, the quail came out and exclaimed: “I have seen the back of my enemy!”
Who acts: hawk, quail · What happens: meet, come out, exclaim, see, die · To what, where: death, back · 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 (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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 met | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 met | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hawk | det |
| 4 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 met | aux |
| 6 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 met | advmod |
| 7 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 death | nmod:poss |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 met | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 quail | det |
| 12 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 met | parataxis |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 came | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 exclaimed | cc |
| 16 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 exclaimed | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 back | det |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 enemy | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 26 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 back | nmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past · perfect | the hawk | hawk's death | now | thus property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | come out | past | the quail | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | the quail not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present · perfect | the quail = quail | the back of my enemy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | die | hawk | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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