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title: Two caravan-leaders 138 _Be prudent! — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Two caravan-leaders 138 _Be prudent! A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 145

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Two caravan-leaders 138 \_Be prudent!

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Two caravan leaders

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. 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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74064:1:153
# text = Two caravan-leaders 138 _Be prudent!
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	138	138	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nmod	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	prudent	prudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | prudent *property* | tree rules |

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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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