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title: As soon as he put the mango into his mouth, perceiving that the juic… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as he put the mango into his mouth, perceiving that the juice tasted like the vile juice of the nimb, he was unable to swallow it, and coughing it up, spat it out. Who acts: king, juice. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10, with its dependency 
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 84

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As soon as he put the mango into his mouth, perceiving that the juice tasted like the vile juice of the nimb, he was unable to swallow it, and coughing it up, spat it out.

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**Who acts:** king, juice · **What happens:** put, perceive, taste, be, swallow, cough up · **To what, where:** mango, mouth

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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, juice), 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:pg74064:10:86
# text = As soon as he put the mango into his mouth, perceiving that the juice tasted like the vile juice of the nimb, he was unable to swallow it, and coughing it up, spat it out.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mango	mango	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	vile	vile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	juice	juice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	nimb	nimb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	coughing	cough	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	37	advcl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
37	spat	spat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	RP	_	37	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | king | the mango |  | king's mouth |  | soon *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mango=Goal |
| 2 | **perceive** | gerund | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **taste** | past | the juice |  |  |  |  | like the vile juice of the nimb | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | king |  |  |  |  | unable *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **swallow** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | mango |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **cough up** | gerund |  | mango |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **spat out** | infinitive |  | mango |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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