The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 72
Said the tiny quail: “When this crow has put out the eyes of the solitary elephant, I wish you would drop a nit on them.”
Who acts: tiny quail, you · What happens: say, put out, wish, drop · To what, where: crow, nit · 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 | 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 | _ | 24 drop | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 wish | punct |
| 7 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 put | mark |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 crow | det |
| 9 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 put | aux |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 wish | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 put | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eyes | det |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 put | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 elephant | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 elephant | det |
| 17 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 elephant | amod |
| 18 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eyes | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 wish | nsubj |
| 21 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 drop | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 drop | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 drop | aux |
| 24 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 nit | det |
| 26 | nit | nit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drop | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 drop | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 drop | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 drop | 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 clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | put out in a quote | present · perfect · passive | this crow | the eyes of the solitary elephant obj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset eye=Goal | ||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | the tiny quail = quail | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | drop in a quote | would | you | a nit | on Quail | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nit=Theme on they=Destination |
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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