The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 34
And standing on his heart and breathing forth a solemn utterance, the quail uttered the second stanza:
Who acts: quail · What happens: stand, breathe, utter · To what, where: heart, solemn utterance, second stanza
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 standing | cc |
| 2 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 heart | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 standing | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 breathing | cc |
| 7 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 standing | conj |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 breathing | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 utterance | det |
| 10 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 utterance | amod |
| 11 | utterance | utterance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 breathing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 uttered | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 quail | det |
| 14 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 uttered | nsubj |
| 15 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 utterance | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stanza | det |
| 17 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 stanza | amod |
| 18 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 uttered | obj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | hawk's heart | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on heart=Location | |||||
| 2 | breathe | gerund | a solemn utterance | forth property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme | ||||
| 3 | utter speech: other | past | the quail | the second stanza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic |
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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