The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 45
The bird went quickly and told the Future Buddha: “The hunter is coming!”
Who acts: bird, hunter · What happens: go, tell, come · To what, where: Future Buddha · 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, hunter), 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 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 told | cc |
| 6 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Buddha | det |
| 8 | Future | Future | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Buddha | compound |
| 9 | Buddha | Buddha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 told | iobj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 coming | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hunter | det |
| 13 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 coming | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 coming | aux |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | parataxis |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 coming | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the bird | quickly property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the bird not said here | the Future Buddha | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent buddha=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · progressive | the hunter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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