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title: Through contact with sweet juices the mango became perfectly sweet a… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Through contact with sweet juices the mango became perfectly sweet again. Who acts: mango. 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 96

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Through contact with sweet juices the mango became perfectly sweet again.

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**Who acts:** mango · **What happens:** become · **To what, where:** contact

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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 (mango), 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:pg74064:10:98
# text = Through contact with sweet juices the mango became perfectly sweet again.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	contact	contact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	juices	juice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mango	mango	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the mango |  |  | contact with sweet juices |  | sweet *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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