The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 67
Said the tiny quail: “Master, there is only one thing I want done.
Who acts: tiny quail, one thing · What happens: say, be, want, do · To what, where: one thing · 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, one thing), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 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 | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 Master | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Master | punct |
| 7 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 quail | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Master | parataxis |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 thing | advmod |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 thing | nummod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 want | nsubj |
| 15 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 thing | acl:relcl |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 want | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the tiny quail | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | one thing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | the tiny quail = quail | one thing not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen, in a quote | participle | one thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «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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