The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 48
The tiny quail went forth to meet the solitary elephant, did homage to him with her wings, and uttered the second stanza:
Who acts: tiny quail · What happens: go, meet, do, utter · To what, where: solitary elephant, homage, King, second stanza
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 quail | det |
| 2 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quail | amod |
| 3 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 meet | mark |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 elephant | det |
| 9 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 elephant | amod |
| 10 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meet | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 did | punct |
| 12 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 13 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 did | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 did | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 wings | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 did | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 uttered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 uttered | cc |
| 21 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 stanza | det |
| 23 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 stanza | amod |
| 24 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 uttered | obj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the tiny quail | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | the tiny quail not said here | the solitary elephant | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | do | past | the tiny quail not said here | homage | King | with Elephant's wings | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homage=Eventuality | ||
| 4 | utter speech: other | past | the tiny quail not said here | the second stanza | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic |
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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