The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 119

United, the birds go away with the net; But when they fall out, they’ll come into my power.

Who acts: United birds, birds · What happens: go away, fall out, come · To what, where: power

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 (United birds, birds), 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	United	United	PROPN	_	4 birds	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 United	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 net	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 net	det
9	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
11	But	but	CCONJ	_	19 come	cc
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 fall	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fall	nsubj
14	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 come	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 fall	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fall	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	parataxis
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 power	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 power	nmod:poss
22	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go away	present	the United birds		with the net; away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with net=Beneficiary
2	fall out	present	birds = bird			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	future	birds = bird	my power		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into power=Initial_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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🌲 The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 119

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 119