The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 42
Again the bird shrieked, flew at him, and struck him in the face.
Who acts: bird · What happens: shriek, fly, strike · To what, where: bird, face
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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 4 shrieked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shrieked | nsubj |
| 4 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shrieked | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 struck | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 struck | cc |
| 11 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shrieked | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 struck | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 face | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 face | det |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 struck | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek | past | the bird | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the bird not said here | at bird | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | the bird not said here | bird | the face | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
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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