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title: King and boar 86 _He bit the gem, and by its magical power rose into… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: King and boar 86 _He bit the gem, and by its magical power rose into the air_ Who acts: King. 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 169

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King and boar 86 \_He bit the gem, and by its magical power rose into the air\_

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** bite, rise · **To what, where:** gem, air

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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 (King), 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:pg74064:1:182
# text = King and boar 86 _He bit the gem, and by its magical power rose into the air_
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	86	86	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bit	bite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gem	gem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | past | King and boar \_ | the gem |  |  |  | baby *nsubj* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gem=Patient |
| 2 | **rise** | past | King and boar \_ *not said here* |  |  | the air |  | by seat's magical power | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by power=Location |

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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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