The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 88
Behold the quail, the crow, the fly, the frog!
To what, where: quail
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: 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 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 3 quail | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 quail | det |
| 3 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 crow | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 crow | det |
| 6 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quail | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fly | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fly | det |
| 9 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 crow | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 frog | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 frog | det |
| 12 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 quail | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 quail | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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