The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 94
“Just now some men said: ‘Beyond that dark green streak of woods it is raining.’
Who acts: men, it · What happens: say, rain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, it), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 3 now | advmod |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 men | det |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 streak | punct |
| 9 | Beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 13 streak | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 streak | nsubj |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 streak | amod |
| 12 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 streak | amod |
| 13 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 woods | case |
| 15 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 streak | nmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 raining | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 raining | aux |
| 18 | raining | rain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 streak | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 raining | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 streak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | some men | now | dark green streak that of woods ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | rain in a quote | present · progressive | it | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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