The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 38
When the tiny quail saw him, she thought: “This elephant-king will crush my fledglings and kill them.
Who acts: tiny quail, Elephant, elephant king · What happens: see, think, crush, kill · To what, where: Buddha, fledglings · 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 (tiny quail, Elephant, elephant king), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 quail | det |
| 3 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 quail | amod |
| 4 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 crush | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 crush | punct |
| 12 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 king | det |
| 13 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 king | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 elephant | punct |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crush | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 crush | aux |
| 17 | crush | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fledglings | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fledglings | fledgling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 crush | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kill | cc |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 crush | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kill | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the tiny quail | Buddha | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Elephant | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | crush in a quote | future | this elephant king | my fledglings | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fledgling=Patient | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | infinitive | this elephant king not said here | fledglings = fledgling | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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