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title: When, after eating the mango fruit, they planted the stone, nothing… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: When, after eating the mango fruit, they planted the stone, nothing happened. Who acts: fruits, nothing. 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 65

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When, after eating the mango fruit, they planted the stone, nothing happened.

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**Who acts:** fruits, nothing · **What happens:** eat, plant, happen · **To what, where:** mango fruit, stone

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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, nothing), 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:pg74064:10:67
# text = When, after eating the mango fruit, they planted the stone, nothing happened.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	mango	mango	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	planted	plant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	nsubj	_	_
15	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | gerund | fruits *= fruit* *not said here* | the mango fruit |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 2 | **plant** | past | fruits *= fruit* | the stone |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient |
| 3 | **happen** | past | nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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