The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 81
At that moment the frog, squatting on the mountain-top, let out a croak.
Who acts: frog, you · What happens: squat, let out · To what, where: mountain top, croak
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 (frog, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 let | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 frog | det |
| 5 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moment | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 squatting | punct |
| 7 | squatting | squat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 frog | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 top | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 top | det |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 top | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 mountain | punct |
| 12 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 squatting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 moment | punct |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 let | compound:prt |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 croak | det |
| 17 | croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 let | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squat | gerund | the frog not said here | the mountain top | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location | ||||
| 2 | let out | imperative | you not said here | a croak | moment | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croak=Theme |
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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