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title: Accompanied by a mighty force, the man entered the city and caused h… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Accompanied by a mighty force, the man entered the city and caused himself to be sprinkled king. 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 50

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Accompanied by a mighty force, the man entered the city and caused himself to be sprinkled king.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** accompany, enter, cause, sprinkle · **To what, where:** city, man, king

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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:pg74064:10:51
# text = Accompanied by a mighty force, the man entered the city and caused himself to be sprinkled king.
1	Accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accompany** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a mighty force | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by force=Destination |
| 2 | **enter** | past | the man | the city |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Destination |
| 3 | **cause** | past | the man *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition himself=Patient |
| 4 | **sprinkle** | to-infinitive · passive | the man *not said here* |  | king |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: king=Destination |

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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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