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title: And setting the little hare down in the cocoanut grove, he said: “Co… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And setting the little hare down in the cocoanut grove, he said: “Come, show me the spot where you saw what you saw.” Who acts: grove, you. 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 163

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And setting the little hare down in the cocoanut grove, he said: “Come, show me the spot where you saw what you saw.”

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**Who acts:** grove, you · **What happens:** set, say, come, show, see · **To what, where:** little hare, spot, grove · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, you), 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:pg74064:10:167
# text = And setting the little hare down in the cocoanut grove, he said: “Come, show me the spot where you saw what you saw.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	ccomp	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	cocoanut	cocoanut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | gerund |  | the little hare |  |  |  | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient hare=Result |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | grove |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **show** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the spot | grove |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient spot=Topic |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **see** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

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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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