The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 134
Said another: “They say that in the very act of lifting the net, you lost your wing-feathers.
Who acts: Quail, act, you · What happens: say, lift, lose · To what, where: another, net, wing feathers, act · 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 1 Said | obj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 say | punct |
| 5 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Said | parataxis |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 lost | mark |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 act | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 act | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 act | advmod |
| 11 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lost | obl |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 lifting | mark |
| 13 | lifting | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 act | acl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 net | det |
| 15 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lifting | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 act | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 lost | nsubj |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 say | ccomp |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 feathers | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 wing | punct |
| 22 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lost | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | another | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | Quail | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 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 | your wing feathers | the act | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=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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