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title: The king gave the regular gardener sole charge of the garden, and af… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The king gave the regular gardener sole charge of the garden, and after living out his allotted term of life, passed away according to his deeds. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 10, sentence 97

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The king gave the regular gardener sole charge of the garden, and after living out his allotted term of life, passed away according to his deeds.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** give, live out, allot, pass away, accord, charge · **To what, where:** regular gardener sole charge, allotted term, garden, life

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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), 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:pg74064:10:99
# text = The king gave the regular gardener sole charge of the garden, and after living out his allotted term of life, passed away according to his deeds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	regular	regular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	allotted	allot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	according	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	case	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the king | the regular gardener sole charge of the garden |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Theme |
| 2 | **live out** | gerund | the king *not said here* | king's allotted term of life |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **allot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pass away** | participle | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | accord king's deeds; away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **charge** |  |  | the garden |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **term** |  | king | life |  |  |  |  | nom term «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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