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title: He lived there for two or three days, performed the major and minor… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: He lived there for two or three days, performed the major and minor duties for the ascetic, and saw the magical power of the little hatchet. Who acts: man. 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 29

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He lived there for two or three days, performed the major and minor duties for the ascetic, and saw the magical power of the little hatchet.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** live, perform, see · **To what, where:** major duties, magical power

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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 (man), 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:pg74064:10:29
# text = He lived there for two or three days, performed the major and minor duties for the ascetic, and saw the magical power of the little hatchet.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	conj	_	_
8	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	performed	perform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	major	major	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	minor	minor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | man |  |  | there | day |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **perform** | past | man *not said here* | the major duties |  |  |  | for the ascetic | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent duty=Theme for ascetic=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **see** | past | man *not said here* | the magical power of the little hatchet |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=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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