The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 57
The tiny quail perched on the branch of a tree and thought: “Just now you go your way trumpeting.
Who acts: tiny quail, you · What happens: perch, think, go, trumpet · To what, where: tiny quail, branch, way · 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, 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 | 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 | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 quail | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 branch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 branch | det |
| 7 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 perched | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 branch | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 perched | cc |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 15 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 16 now | advmod |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 go | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | conj |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obj |
| 21 | trumpeting | trumpet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 go | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perch | participle | the tiny quail not said here | the branch of a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the tiny quail | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | you | your way | now | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 4 | trumpet in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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