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title: Monkey-gardeners 130 “_When you water the young trees, pull them up… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Monkey-gardeners 130 “_When you water the young trees, pull them up by the roots, every one_” Who acts: you, young trees. 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 175

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Monkey-gardeners 130 “\_When you water the young trees, pull them up by the roots, every one\_”

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**Who acts:** you, young trees · **What happens:** tree, pull up · **To what, where:** gardeners, Monkey gardeners

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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 (you, young trees), 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:pg74064:1:188
# text = Monkey-gardeners 130 “_When you water the young trees, pull them up by the roots, every one_”
1	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	gardeners	gardener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	130	130	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tree** *in a quote* |  | you |  |  |  |  | water *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pull up** *in a quote* | infinitive | the young trees *not said here* | gardeners *= gardener* |  |  |  | by the roots | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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