The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 22
When he made that sound, from the tip of the tree came the woodpecker and out of the water came the tortoise.
Who acts: Hunter, woodpecker, tortoise · What happens: make, come · To what, where: sound, tip
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: who acts (Hunter, woodpecker, tortoise), 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 | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 sound | det |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 tip | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tip | det |
| 9 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tip | nmod |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woodpecker | det |
| 15 | woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 came | mark |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tortoise | det |
| 23 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Hunter | that sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the woodpecker | the tip of the tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tip=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the tortoise | of the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of water=Initial_Location |
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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