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title: The patient woman M. 21: i. 125 75 _Patient is as patient does_ — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The patient woman M. 21: i. 125 75 _Patient is as patient does_ Who acts: patient. 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 86

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The patient woman M. 21: i. 125 75 \_Patient is as patient does\_

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**Who acts:** patient · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Patient, patient woman

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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 (patient), 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:pg74064:1:92
# text = The patient woman M. 21: i. 125 75 _Patient is as patient does_
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	patient	patient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	21	21	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
7	i.	i.	SYM	SYM	_	9	punct	_	_
8	125	125	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	compound	_	_
9	75	75	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Patient	patient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	patient	patient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | patient | Patient *not said here* |  |  |  | do *property* | tree rules |

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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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