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title: One day, while he was amusing himself in the mighty river, in an enc… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, while he was amusing himself in the mighty river, in an enclosure formed by a net, there floated up and lodged in the net a single mango fruit fit for the gods. Who acts: soldier. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree a
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 54

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One day, while he was amusing himself in the mighty river, in an enclosure formed by a net, there floated up and lodged in the net a single mango fruit fit for the gods.

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**Who acts:** soldier · **What happens:** amuse, form, float up, lodge · **To what, where:** soldier, mighty river, enclosure, single mango fruit fit, net

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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 (soldier), 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:pg74064:10:56
# text = One day, while he was amusing himself in the mighty river, in an enclosure formed by a net, there floated up and lodged in the net a single mango fruit fit for the gods.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	amusing	amuse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	enclosure	enclosure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
17	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
23	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	lodged	lodge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	mango	mango	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
33	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	fit	fit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **amuse** | past · progressive | soldier | soldier |  | the mighty river | day | in a enclosure | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
| 2 | **form** | participle |  | a enclosure *not said here* |  |  |  | by a net | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by net=Location |
| 3 | **float up** | participle | soldier *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lodge** | participle | soldier *not said here* | a single mango fruit fit |  | the net |  | for the gods | vn odge-46-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fit=Theme in net=Location |

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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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