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title: From that time on the little hatchet made fire for the eldest brothe… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: From that time on the little hatchet made fire for the eldest brother; when the second brother beat the drum, the elephants fled; the youngest brother enjoyed his curds. Who acts: little hatchet, second brother, elephants, youngest brother. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burl
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 9

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From that time on the little hatchet made fire for the eldest brother; when the second brother beat the drum, the elephants fled; the youngest brother enjoyed his curds.

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**Who acts:** little hatchet, second brother, elephants, youngest brother · **What happens:** make, beat, flee, enjoy · **To what, where:** fire, drum, curds

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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 (little hatchet, second brother, elephants, youngest brother), 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:pg74064:10:9
# text = From that time on the little hatchet made fire for the eldest brother; when the second brother beat the drum, the elephants fled; the youngest brother enjoyed his curds.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	beat	beat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	curds	curd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle | the little hatchet *not said here* | fire for the eldest brother |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **beat** | past | the second brother | the drum |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme |
| 3 | **flee** | past | the elephants |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **enjoy** | past | the youngest brother | Sakka's curds |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer curd=Stimulus |

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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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