The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 132
Then said one quail: “They say that in the very act of lifting the net, you lost the down on your head.
Who acts: Quail, act, you · What happens: say, lift, lose · To what, where: one quail, net, down, head · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Quail, act, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 quail | nummod |
| 4 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 7 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 say | nsubj |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 act | mark |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 act | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 act | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 act | advmod |
| 13 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 say | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 lifting | mark |
| 15 | lifting | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 act | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 net | det |
| 17 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lifting | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lost | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 lost | nsubj |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 down | det |
| 22 | down | down | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lost | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lost | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | one quail | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Quail | the act ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lift in a quote | gerund | the act not said here | the net | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose in a quote | past | you | the down | your head | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent down=Eventuality |
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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