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title: Seeing the magical power of the bowl of curds, he gave the youngest… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing the magical power of the bowl of curds, he gave the youngest ascetic the gem, took the bowl of curds, and in the same way as before caused his head to be cut off. Who acts: man, head. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 40

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Seeing the magical power of the bowl of curds, he gave the youngest ascetic the gem, took the bowl of curds, and in the same way as before caused his head to be cut off.

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**Who acts:** man, head · **What happens:** see, give, take, cause, cut off · **To what, where:** magical power, youngest ascetic, bowl, head, same way

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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, head), 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:pg74064:10:41
# text = Seeing the magical power of the bowl of curds, he gave the youngest ascetic the gem, took the bowl of curds, and in the same way as before caused his head to be cut off.
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	curds	curd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	gem	gem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	curds	curd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	32	cc	_	_
31	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	xcomp	_	_
38	off	off	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | man *not said here* | the magical power of the bowl of curds |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | past | man | the youngest ascetic |  |  |  | the gem *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ascetic=Recipient gem=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | man *not said here* | the bowl of curds |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme |
| 4 | **cause** | past | man *not said here* | man's head |  | the same way |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cut off** | to-infinitive · passive | man's head *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V» |

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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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