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title: Simple consonants are pronounced as in English, except that _c_ is p… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Simple consonants are pronounced as in English, except that _c_ is pronounced like _ch_ in _church_, _g_ as in _get_, and _j_ as in _judge_. Who acts: _. 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 38

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Simple consonants are pronounced as in English, except that \_c\_ is pronounced like \_ch\_ in \_church\_, \_g\_ as in \_get\_, and \_j\_ as in \_judge\_.

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**Who acts:** \_ · **What happens:** pronounce, get · **To what, where:** Simple consonants, c \_, church

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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 (\_), 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:pg74064:1:43
# text = Simple consonants are pronounced as in English, except that _c_ is pronounced like _ch_ in _church_, _g_ as in _get_, and _j_ as in _judge_.
1	Simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	consonants	consonant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	except	except	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	c	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	ch	ch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	g	G	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	_	_	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	31	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	j	J	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	36	punct	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	judge	judge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pronounce** | present · passive |  | Simple consonants |  |  |  | as English; as judge; g *parataxis*; j *parataxis* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **pronounce** | present · passive |  | c \_ |  | church |  | except that; like ch | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in church=Manner |
| 3 | **get** | present | \_ |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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