The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 86
When the tiny quail realized that he was dead, she cried out: “I have seen the back of my enemy!”
Who acts: tiny quail, Frog, Elephant · What happens: realize, be, cry out, see · To what, where: back · 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, Frog, Elephant), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 realized | advmod |
| 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 | 5 realized | nsubj |
| 5 | realized | realize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cried | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 dead | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dead | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dead | cop |
| 9 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 realized | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 realized | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 cried | compound:prt |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 seen | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 seen | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 seen | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 seen | aux |
| 18 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 cried | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 back | det |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seen | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 enemy | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 23 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 back | nmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 seen | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realize | past | the tiny quail | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Frog | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | past | Elephant | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | present · perfect | Elephant | the back of my enemy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Stimulus |
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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