The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 32
For because of a quarrel even a tiny quail brought about the destruction of a noble elephant.”
What happens: bring, destroy · To what, where: tiny quail, noble elephant
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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 quarrel | case |
| 2 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 5 quarrel | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 quarrel | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 quarrel | det |
| 5 | quarrel | quarrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 quail | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 quail | det |
| 8 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 quail | amod |
| 9 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quarrel | nmod |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 quail | acl |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 destruction | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 destruction | det |
| 13 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 elephant | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 elephant | det |
| 16 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 elephant | amod |
| 17 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 destruction | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 quail | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 quail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | participle | a tiny quail not said here | about the destruction of a noble elephant | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | destroy | a noble elephant | nom destruction «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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