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title: At that time, near the Western Ocean, grew a grove of cocoanut trees… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: At that time, near the Western Ocean, grew a grove of cocoanut trees intermingled with Vilva trees. Who acts: grove. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 109

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At that time, near the Western Ocean, grew a grove of cocoanut trees intermingled with Vilva trees.

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**Who acts:** grove · **What happens:** grow, intermingle · **To what, where:** Western Ocean

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grove), 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:pg74064:10:113
# text = At that time, near the Western Ocean, grew a grove of cocoanut trees intermingled with Vilva trees.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Western	Western	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	compound	_	_
8	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	cocoanut	cocoanut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	intermingled	intermingle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Vilva	Vilva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past |  |  |  | the Western Ocean | time |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near ocean=Location |
| 2 | **intermingle** | past | a grove of cocoanut trees |  |  |  |  | with Vilva trees | vn amalgamate-22.2-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with tree=Co-Patient |

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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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