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title: The tiny quail perched on the branch of a tree and thought: “Just no… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The tiny quail perched on the branch of a tree and thought: “Just now you go your way trumpeting. Who acts: tiny quail, you. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 5, sentence 57

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The tiny quail perched on the branch of a tree and thought: “Just now you go your way trumpeting.

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**Who acts:** tiny quail, you · **What happens:** perch, think, go, trumpet · **To what, where:** tiny quail, branch, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny quail, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74064:5:59
# text = The tiny quail perched on the branch of a tree and thought: “Just now you go your way trumpeting.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	quail	quail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	trumpeting	trumpet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perch** | participle |  | the tiny quail *not said here* |  | the branch of a tree |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the tiny quail |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | you | your way |  |  | now |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 4 | **trumpet** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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