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title: The new gardener, realizing that the garden was in his own hands, pl… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The new gardener, realizing that the garden was in his own hands, planted nimbs and pot-herbs and creepers all around the mango tree. Who acts: new gardener. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 78

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The new gardener, realizing that the garden was in his own hands, planted nimbs and pot-herbs and creepers all around the mango tree.

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**Who acts:** new gardener · **What happens:** realize, be, plant · **To what, where:** own hands

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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 (new gardener), 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:pg74064:10:80
# text = The new gardener, realizing that the garden was in his own hands, planted nimbs and pot-herbs and creepers all around the mango tree.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	realizing	realize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	planted	plant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	nimbs	nimb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	creepers	creeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
24	around	around	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	mango	mango	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **realize** | gerund | the new gardener *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the garden *advcl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | the new gardener |  |  | gardener's own hands and planted nimbs around the mango tree and pot herbs and creepers |  | gardener *nmod:poss*; planted nimbs around the mango tree and pot herbs and creepers *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **plant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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