The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 39
As for the hunter, he thought: “When I went out of the front door, I saw a bird of evil omen.
Who acts: bird · What happens: think, go out, see · To what, where: front door, bird · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bird), 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 hunter | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hunter | det |
| 4 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunter | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 10 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 went | advmod |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 thought | ccomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 16 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 door | amod |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bird | det |
| 22 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 omen | case |
| 24 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 omen | amod |
| 25 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bird | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | bird | as the hunter | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go out in a quote | past | bird | the front door | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | bird | a bird of evil omen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=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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