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title: The king, pleased with the new gardener, dismissed the old gardener,… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The king, pleased with the new gardener, dismissed the old gardener, and gave the new gardener exclusive charge of the garden. Who acts: king. 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 77

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The king, pleased with the new gardener, dismissed the old gardener, and gave the new gardener exclusive charge of the garden.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** dismiss, give, charge · **To what, where:** old gardener, new gardener exclusive charge, garden

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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 (king), 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:pg74064:10:79
# text = The king, pleased with the new gardener, dismissed the old gardener, and gave the new gardener exclusive charge of the garden.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	exclusive	exclusive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dismiss** | past | the king | the old gardener |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | the king *not said here* | the new gardener exclusive charge of the garden |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 3 | **charge** |  |  | the garden |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act 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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