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title: Antelope, woodpecker, tortoise, and hunter 50 _At that moment the to… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Antelope, woodpecker, tortoise, and hunter 50 _At that moment the tortoise had chewed all of the strips except just one strap_ 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 163

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Antelope, woodpecker, tortoise, and hunter 50 \_At that moment the tortoise had chewed all of the strips except just one strap\_

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**What happens:** chew · **To what, where:** tortoise, Antelope

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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:pg74064:1:176
# text = Antelope, woodpecker, tortoise, and hunter 50 _At that moment the tortoise had chewed all of the strips except just one strap_
1	Antelope	antelope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
9	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	At	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	chewed	chew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	strips	strip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	except	except	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	strap	strap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chew** | past · perfect · passive |  | the tortoise |  |  | moment | except one strap | 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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