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title: “Near the Western Ocean, in a grove of cocoanut trees mingled with V… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “Near the Western Ocean, in a grove of cocoanut trees mingled with Vilva trees. Who acts: Western Ocean. 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 154

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“Near the Western Ocean, in a grove of cocoanut trees mingled with Vilva trees.

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**Who acts:** Western Ocean · **What happens:** mingle

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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 (Western Ocean), 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:pg74064:10:158
# text = “Near the Western Ocean, in a grove of cocoanut trees mingled with Vilva trees.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Western	Western	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	5	compound	_	_
5	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	cocoanut	cocoanut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	mingled	mingle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Vilva	Vilva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mingle** *in a quote* | past | the Western Ocean |  |  |  |  | with Vilva trees | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent 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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