The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 43
The hunter, struck once again by that bird of evil omen, made up his mind: “That bird will not permit me to go out.”
Who acts: hunter, evil omen, bird · What happens: strike, make up, not permit, go out, mind · To what, where: mind, 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 (hunter, evil omen, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hunter | det |
| 2 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hunter | punct |
| 4 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 struck | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 struck | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 bird | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 struck | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 omen | case |
| 11 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 omen | amod |
| 12 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bird | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 omen | acl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 made | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mind | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 permit | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 permit | punct |
| 20 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 bird | det |
| 21 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 permit | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 permit | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 permit | advmod |
| 24 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 struck | parataxis |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 permit | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 go | mark |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 permit | xcomp |
| 28 | out | out | ADV | _ | 27 go | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 permit | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 permit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the hunter | again | by that bird of evil omen; once property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make up | participle | evil omen not said here | bird's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | not permit in a quote | future | that bird | bird | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | go out not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | that bird not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | mind | bird | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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