The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 104
From this time on, the moment he throws the net over you, let each quail stick his head through a single mesh, lift the net, and carrying it wherever you will, let it down on some thorn-brake.
Who acts: moment, quail, carrying · What happens: throw, let, stick, lift, carry, let down · To what, where: net, quail, head, single mesh, thorn brake
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moment, quail, carrying), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 throws | obl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 time | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moment | det |
| 7 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 throws | nsubj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 throws | nsubj |
| 9 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 net | det |
| 11 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 throws | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 throws | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 throws | conj |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 quail | det |
| 17 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 let | obj |
| 18 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stick | obj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 mesh | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 mesh | det |
| 23 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mesh | amod |
| 24 | mesh | mesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stick | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lift | punct |
| 26 | lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 net | det |
| 28 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lift | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 let | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 let | cc |
| 31 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 let | csubj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 carrying | obj |
| 33 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 will | advmod |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 will | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 let | aux |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 will | punct |
| 37 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 throws | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 let | obj |
| 39 | down | down | ADP | _ | 37 let | compound:prt |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 brake | case |
| 41 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 brake | det |
| 42 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 brake | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 thorn | punct |
| 44 | brake | brake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 let | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 throws | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present | the moment | the net | time | over you; Buddha nsubj | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent net=Theme over you=Destination | ||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the moment not said here | each quail | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stick | infinitive | each quail not said here | Buddha's head | a single mesh | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme through mesh=Destination | |||
| 4 | lift | present | the moment not said here | the net | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme | ||||
| 5 | carry | gerund | net | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | let down | future | carrying | net | some thorn brake | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme on brake=Asset |
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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