The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 70
The tiny quail then ministered to a green fly.
What happens: minister · To what, where: tiny quail
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: 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 | 5 ministered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 ministered | advmod |
| 5 | ministered | minister | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 fly | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fly | det |
| 8 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fly | amod |
| 9 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ministered | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ministered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | minister | participle · passive | the tiny quail | then | to a green fly | tree rules |
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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