The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 45
Then he addressed the tiny quail: “Behind us comes a single solitary elephant; he will not obey our command.
Who acts: King, us, our · What happens: address, come, not obey, command · To what, where: tiny quail, single solitary elephant, command · 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 (King, us, our), 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 | 3 addressed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 addressed | nsubj |
| 3 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 quail | det |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 quail | amod |
| 6 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 addressed | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 obey | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 obey | punct |
| 9 | Behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 comes | mark |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 comes | nsubj |
| 11 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 obey | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 elephant | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 elephant | amod |
| 14 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 elephant | amod |
| 15 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comes | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 comes | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 obey | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 obey | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 obey | advmod |
| 20 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 addressed | conj |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 command | nmod:poss |
| 22 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 obey | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | King | the tiny quail | then | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quail=Destination | |||
| 2 | come in a quote | present | us | a single solitary elephant | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location elephant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not obey in a quote | future | King | our command | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | ||||
| 4 | command in a quote | our | nom command «communication transitive»: 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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