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title: Dragon Jewel-neck 104 _Every day Jewel-neck the dragon-king would en… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Dragon Jewel-neck 104 _Every day Jewel-neck the dragon-king would encircle him with his coils_ Who acts: Dragon. 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 173

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Dragon Jewel-neck 104 \_Every day Jewel-neck the dragon-king would encircle him with his coils\_

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**Who acts:** Dragon · **What happens:** encircle · **To what, where:** neck

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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 (Dragon), 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:pg74064:1:186
# text = Dragon Jewel-neck 104 _Every day Jewel-neck the dragon-king would encircle him with his coils_
1	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
2	Jewel	Jewel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	104	104	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
9	Jewel	Jewel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	encircle	encircle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	coils	coil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encircle** | would | Dragon |  | neck |  |  | with neck's coils; day Jewel neck *nsubj*; the dragon king *nsubj* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with coil=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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