The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 17
Not far from that same lake, on the tip of a certain tree, perched a woodpecker.
What happens: perch · To what, where: woodpecker
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 7. 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 perched | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 lake | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 lake | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lake | amod |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 far | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tip | punct |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 tip | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tip | det |
| 10 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lake | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tree | amod |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tip | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 far | punct |
| 16 | perched | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 woodpecker | det |
| 18 | woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 perched | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 perched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perch | past | a woodpecker | far property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location woodpecker=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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