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title: Accordingly, after demonstrating to the ascetic the magical power of… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Accordingly, after demonstrating to the ascetic the magical power of the gem, he said: “Reverend Sir, take this gem and give me the little hatchet.” Who acts: man, Reverend Sir. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 31

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Accordingly, after demonstrating to the ascetic the magical power of the gem, he said: “Reverend Sir, take this gem and give me the little hatchet.”

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**Who acts:** man, Reverend Sir · **What happens:** demonstrate, say, take, give · **To what, where:** magical power, ascetic, gem, little hatchet, man · **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 (man, Reverend Sir), 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:pg74064:10:31
# text = Accordingly, after demonstrating to the ascetic the magical power of the gem, he said: “Reverend Sir, take this gem and give me the little hatchet.”
1	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	demonstrating	demonstrate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gem	gem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Reverend	Reverend	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	gem	gem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
27	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demonstrate** | gerund | man *not said here* | the magical power of the gem | the ascetic |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent power=Topic to ascetic=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  | accordingly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | Reverend Sir | this gem |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gem=Theme |
| 4 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | Reverend Sir *not said here* | the little hatchet | man |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient hatchet=Theme |

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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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