The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 114
The moment I throw the net, they depart with it and drop it on a thorn-brake.
Who acts: I, Quail · What happens: throw, depart, drop · To what, where: net, 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 (I, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 throw | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 throw | nsubj |
| 4 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 net | det |
| 6 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 throw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 depart | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 depart | nsubj |
| 9 | depart | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 throw | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 depart | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drop | cc |
| 13 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 depart | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 drop | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 brake | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 brake | det |
| 17 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brake | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 thorn | punct |
| 19 | brake | brake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drop | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | present | I | the net | moment | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme | |||
| 2 | depart | present | Quail | with net | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drop | infinitive | Quail not said here | net | a thorn brake | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on brake=Destination |
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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