The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 6
At that moment the trees began to sway with the wind of the wings of the griffin, and seemed to utter a cry of dissuasion.
Who acts: trees, dissuasion · What happens: begin, sway, seem, utter, wind, cry · To what, where: cry, wings
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, dissuasion), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trees | det |
| 5 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sway | mark |
| 8 | sway | sway | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 wind | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wind | det |
| 11 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sway | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wings | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wings | det |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wind | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 griffin | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 griffin | det |
| 17 | griffin | griffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wings | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seemed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seemed | cc |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 began | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 utter | mark |
| 22 | utter | utter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seemed | xcomp |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cry | det |
| 24 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 utter | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 dissuasion | case |
| 26 | dissuasion | dissuasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cry | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the trees | moment | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sway | to-infinitive | the trees not said here | with the wind of the wings of the griffin | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seem | past | the trees not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | utter speech: other | to-infinitive | the trees not said here | a cry of dissuasion | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 5 | wind | the wings of the griffin | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | cry | dissuasion | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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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