The grateful elephant, Opening, part 7, sentence 68
The tortoise entered the water, The antelope entered the wood, The woodpecker from that dangerous path Took his fledglings far away.
Who acts: tortoise, antelope, dangerous path · What happens: enter, take · To what, where: water, wood, fledglings
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 (tortoise, antelope, dangerous path), 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 tortoise | det |
| 2 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 entered | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 antelope | det |
| 8 | antelope | antelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 woodpecker | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woodpecker | det |
| 14 | woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wood | conj |
| 15 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 19 Took | mark |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 path | det |
| 17 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 path | amod |
| 18 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Took | nsubj |
| 19 | Took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 entered | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fledglings | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fledglings | fledgling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 Took | obj |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 away | advmod |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 Took | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the tortoise | the water | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Destination | ||||
| 2 | enter | past | the antelope | the wood and the woodpecker | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Destination | ||||
| 3 | take | past | that dangerous path | path's fledglings | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fledgling=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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