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title: Grateful animals and ungrateful man 12 _Thus did those four persons… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Grateful animals and ungrateful man 12 _Thus did those four persons travel together, swept along by the river_ Who acts: Grateful animals, four persons. 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 159

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Grateful animals and ungrateful man 12 \_Thus did those four persons travel together, swept along by the river\_

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**Who acts:** Grateful animals, four persons · **What happens:** do, travel, sweep along

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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: who acts (Grateful animals, four persons), 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:pg74064:1:171
# text = Grateful animals and ungrateful man 12 _Thus did those four persons travel together, swept along by the river_
1	Grateful	grateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	travel	travel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	swept	sweep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
17	along	along	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Grateful animals and ungrateful man |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **travel** | present | that four persons |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sweep along** | participle | Grateful animals and ungrateful man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the river; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by river=Trajectory |

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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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