The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 50
The bird perched on the tip of the tree.
What happens: perch · To what, where: bird, 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: 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 | root | root |
| 3 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bird | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 tip | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tip | det |
| 6 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perched | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tip | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perch | participle | the bird not said here | the tip of the tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tip=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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