The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 120
Now after only a few days had passed, one quail, lighting on the feeding-ground, accidentally trod on the head of another.
What happens: pass, light, tread · To what, where: few days, feeding ground, head
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: 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 days | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 days | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 days | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 passed | aux |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 quail | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 quail | nummod |
| 11 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lighting | punct |
| 13 | lighting | light | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 passed | advcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 16 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ground | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 feeding | punct |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lighting | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 trod | punct |
| 20 | accidentally | accidentally | ADV | _ | 21 trod | advmod |
| 21 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 passed | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 head | det |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trod | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 another | case |
| 26 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 head | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | a few days | one quail obl | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | light | gerund | the feeding ground | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tread | past | the head of another | accidentally property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Trajectory |
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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