The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 143
The young parrot, unable to make headway by flying while the god was raining, went and perched on one side of that very tree-trunk.
Who acts: young parrot, god · What happens: make, fly, rain, go, perch · To what, where: headway, one side
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young parrot, god), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 parrot | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 parrot | amod |
| 3 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 unable | punct |
| 5 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 parrot | amod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 unable | xcomp |
| 8 | headway | headway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 flying | mark |
| 10 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 make | advcl |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 raining | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 god | det |
| 13 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raining | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 raining | aux |
| 15 | raining | rain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 flying | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 parrot | punct |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 perched | cc |
| 19 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 went | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 side | nummod |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 perched | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 trunk | case |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 trunk | nsubj |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 trunk | advmod |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 trunk | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 trunk | punct |
| 28 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 side | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | the young parrot not said here | headway | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset headway=Product | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | the young parrot not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rain | past · progressive | the god | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 4 | go | past | the young parrot | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | perch | participle | the young parrot not said here | one side of tree trunk that | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
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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