--- title: “Rat-a-tat” it went,--I wish you luck,-- In the region where I dwell. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: “Rat-a-tat” it went,--I wish you luck,-- In the region where I dwell. Who acts: Rat, I. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/168/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/) / 168 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 168 “Rat-a-tat” it went,--I wish you luck,-- In the region where I dwell. **Who acts:** Rat, I · **What happens:** go, wish, dwell · **To what, where:** luck, you 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 (Rat, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:10:172 # text = “Rat-a-tat” it went,--I wish you luck,-- In the region where I dwell. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 tat tat NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 -- -- PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 In in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 region region NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 21 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 advmod _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 dwell dwell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Rat | | | | | tat *nsubj* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **wish** | present | I | luck | you | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **dwell** | present | I | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/167/) - next →: [sentence 169](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/169/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/)