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title: A Buddhist Henny-Penny 96 _So taking the little hare on his back, he… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: A Buddhist Henny-Penny 96 _So taking the little hare on his back, he sprang forward with the speed of a lion_ Who acts: Buddhist Henny. 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 171

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A Buddhist Henny-Penny 96 \_So taking the little hare on his back, he sprang forward with the speed of a lion\_

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**Who acts:** Buddhist Henny · **What happens:** take, spring · **To what, where:** little hare, back

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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 (Buddhist Henny), 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:pg74064:1:184
# text = A Buddhist Henny-Penny 96 _So taking the little hare on his back, he sprang forward with the speed of a lion_
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Buddhist	buddhist	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Henny	Henny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Penny	Penny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	96	96	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	flat	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | a Buddhist Henny *not said here* | the little hare |  | Henny's back |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hare=Theme on back=Destination |
| 2 | **spring** | past | a Buddhist Henny |  |  |  |  | with the speed of a lion; Henny *nsubj*; forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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