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title: They sprinkled it with milk and water, they made marks of the spread… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: They sprinkled it with milk and water, they made marks of the spread hand with scented ointment on it, they festooned it with wreaths and ropes of flowers, they burned lamps with perfumed oil before it, and round about it they hung a curtain of fine cloth. Who acts: fruits. A sentence of «The gratef
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 62

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They sprinkled it with milk and water, they made marks of the spread hand with scented ointment on it, they festooned it with wreaths and ropes of flowers, they burned lamps with perfumed oil before it, and round about it they hung a curtain of fine cloth.

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**Who acts:** fruits · **What happens:** sprinkle, make, spread, scent, festoon, burn · **To what, where:** honor, marks, lamps, curtain, spread hand

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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 (fruits), 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:pg74064:10:64
# text = They sprinkled it with milk and water, they made marks of the spread hand with scented ointment on it, they festooned it with wreaths and ropes of flowers, they burned lamps with perfumed oil before it, and round about it they hung a curtain of fine cloth.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	scented	scent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	ointment	ointment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	festooned	festoon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	wreaths	wreath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	ropes	rope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
34	lamps	lamp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	perfumed	perfume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	before	before	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	round	round	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
43	about	about	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	curtain	curtain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sprinkle** | past | fruits *= fruit* | honor |  |  |  | with milk and water | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with milk=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | fruits *= fruit* | marks of the spread hand with scented ointment on honor |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mark=Product |
| 3 | **spread** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **scent** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **festoon** | past | fruits *= fruit* | honor |  |  |  | with wreaths and ropes of flowers | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with wreath=Theme |
| 6 | **burn** | past | fruits *= fruit* | lamps |  |  | before honor | with perfumed oil | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lamp=Patient with oil=Instrument |
| 7 | **perfume** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **hang** | past | fruits *= fruit* | a curtain of fine cloth |  |  |  | round *property* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtain=Patient |
| 9 | **mark** |  |  | the spread hand with scented ointment on honor |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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