--- title: The king, hearing his words, had every one of the nimbs and pot-herb… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: The king, hearing his words, had every one of the nimbs and pot-herbs chopped down, the roots pulled up, the sour earth round about removed, sweet earth put in its place, and the mango fed with milk and water, sweetened water, and perfumed water. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/95/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/) / 95 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 95 The king, hearing his words, had every one of the nimbs and pot-herbs chopped down, the roots pulled up, the sour earth round about removed, sweet earth put in its place, and the mango fed with milk and water, sweetened water, and perfumed water. **Who acts:** king · **What happens:** hear, have, chop down, pull up, remove, put · **To what, where:** words, one, pot herbs, roots, sour earth, sweet earth 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. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:10:97 # text = The king, hearing his words, had every one of the nimbs and pot-herbs chopped down, the roots pulled up, the sour earth round about removed, sweet earth put in its place, and the mango fed with milk and water, sweetened water, and perfumed water. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 hearing hear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 nimbs nimb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 herbs herb NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 18 chopped chop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 19 down down ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 23 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 sour sour ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 appos _ _ 29 round round ADP IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 about about ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 removed remove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 35 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 mango mango NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 43 fed feed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 44 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 sweetened sweeten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 amod _ _ 50 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 53 perfumed perfume VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 54 amod _ _ 54 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | gerund | the king *not said here* | king's words | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | past | the king | every one of the nimbs and pot herbs and the roots | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 3 | **chop down** | participle | | pot herbs *not said here* | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **pull up** | participle | | the roots *not said here* | | | | | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **remove** | participle | | the sour earth and sweet earth *not said here* | | | | about *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **put** | participle | | sweet earth *not said here* | | mango's place | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in place=Destination | | 7 | **feed** | participle · passive | | the mango | | | | with milk and water and sweetened water and perfumed water | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme | | 8 | **sweeten** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **perfume** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **word** | | king | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/96/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/10/)