The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 76
Said the tiny quail: “When this solitary elephant has gone blind and seeks water to drink, then please squat on the mountain-top and croak; and when he has climbed to the top of the mountain, then please hop down and croak at the bottom.
Who acts: tiny quail, solitary elephant, Frog · What happens: say, go, seek, drink, squat, climb · To what, where: water, mountain top, top, bottom · 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, solitary elephant, Frog), 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 | _ | 12 gone | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 gone | punct |
| 7 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 gone | mark |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 elephant | det |
| 9 | solitary | solitary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 elephant | amod |
| 10 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gone | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 gone | aux |
| 12 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Said | parataxis |
| 13 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gone | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seeks | cc |
| 15 | seeks | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Said | conj |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seeks | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 drink | mark |
| 18 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seeks | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 squat | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 squat | advmod |
| 21 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 22 squat | discourse |
| 22 | squat | squat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 drink | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 top | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 top | det |
| 25 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 top | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 mountain | punct |
| 27 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 squat | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 croak | cc |
| 29 | croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 top | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 climbed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 climbed | cc |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 climbed | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 climbed | nsubj |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 climbed | aux |
| 35 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Said | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 top | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 top | det |
| 38 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 climbed | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 mountain | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 mountain | det |
| 41 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 top | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 hop | punct |
| 43 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 45 hop | advmod |
| 44 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 45 hop | discourse |
| 45 | hop | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 climbed | conj |
| 46 | down | down | ADV | _ | 45 hop | advmod |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 croak | cc |
| 48 | croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 down | conj |
| 49 | at | at | ADP | _ | 51 bottom | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 bottom | det |
| 51 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hop | obl |
| 52 | . | . | 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 clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · perfect | this solitary elephant | blind property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seek in a quote | present | the tiny quail not said here | water | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drink not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the tiny quail not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | squat in a quote | infinitive | the tiny quail not said here | the mountain top and croak | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location | |||
| 6 | climb in a quote | present · perfect | Frog | the top of the mountain | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | ||||
| 7 | hop in a quote | infinitive | Frog not said here | the bottom | then | down property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Trajectory |
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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