The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 98
At that time a certain quail-hunter used to go to the haunt of the quails and attract them by imitating a quail’s whistle.
Who acts: quail · What happens: use, go, attract, imitate, whistle · To what, where: certain quail hunter, haunt, Quail, whistle
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 (quail), 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 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunter | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hunter | det |
| 5 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hunter | amod |
| 6 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hunter | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 quail | punct |
| 8 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hunter | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 used | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 haunt | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 haunt | det |
| 14 | haunt | haunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 quails | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 quails | det |
| 17 | quails | quail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 haunt | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 attract | cc |
| 19 | attract | attract | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 attract | obj |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 imitating | mark |
| 22 | imitating | imitate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 attract | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 quail | det |
| 24 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 whistle | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 quail | case |
| 26 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 imitating | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hunter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | a certain quail hunter at that time not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | the haunt of the quails | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to haunt=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | attract | infinitive | Quail | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||||
| 4 | imitate | gerund | a quail's whistle | vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme | |||||
| 6 | whistle | a quail | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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