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title: Said the Sakyas: “Will any harm come to the child?” — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Said the Sakyas: “Will any harm come to the child?” Who acts: harm. 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 191

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Said the Sakyas: “Will any harm come to the child?”

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**Who acts:** harm · **What happens:** say, come · **To what, where:** Sakyas · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (harm), 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:pg74064:1:205
# text = Said the Sakyas: “Will any harm come to the child?”
1	Said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Sakyas	Sakya	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past |  | the Sakyas |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | future | any harm |  |  |  |  | to the child | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to child=Initial\_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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