The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 131

As for the fowler, he came back after a few days, imitated a quail’s whistle, and when the quails had assembled, threw the net over them.

Who acts: Fowler, few days, quail · What happens: come back, imitate, assemble, throw, whistle · To what, where: whistle, quails, net

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 (Fowler, few days, 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 fowler	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fowler	det
4	fowler	fowler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fowler	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	after	after	ADP	_	12 days	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 days	det
11	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 imitated	punct
14	imitated	imitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 days	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 quail	det
16	quail	quail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 whistle	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 quail	case
18	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 imitated	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 threw	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 threw	cc
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	25 assembled	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 quails	det
23	quails	quail	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 assembled	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 assembled	aux
25	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 threw	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 assembled	punct
27	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 net	det
29	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 threw	obj
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 threw	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come back	past	Fowler		day	as the fowler	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	imitate	participle	a few days not said here	a quail's whistle			vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme
3	assemble	past · perfect · passive		the quails			vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	throw	past	Fowler not said here	the net		over Quail	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent net=Theme over they=Destination
5	whistle		a quail				nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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 131

The tree

Pragmatics

The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 131