The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 79
Now one day the crow pecked out both of the elephant’s eyes, and the fly let a nit drop on them.
Who acts: crow, fly · What happens: peck out, let · To what, where: both, nit drop
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 (crow, fly), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 pecked | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pecked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crow | det |
| 5 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pecked | nsubj |
| 6 | pecked | peck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 pecked | compound:prt |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 pecked | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 elephant | det |
| 11 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 elephant | case |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 both | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fly | det |
| 17 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 let | nsubj |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 pecked | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 drop | det |
| 20 | nit | nit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drop | compound |
| 21 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 let | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 them | case |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pecked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peck out | participle | the crow | both of the elephant's eyes | now; day | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Patient | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | the fly | a nit drop | on eyes = eye | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent drop=Theme on they=Asset |
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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