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title: The dragon-king and the younger ascetic greeted each other in a cord… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The dragon-king and the younger ascetic greeted each other in a cordial manner, and became fast friends and inseparable companions. Who acts: dragon king. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 102

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The dragon-king and the younger ascetic greeted each other in a cordial manner, and became fast friends and inseparable companions.

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**Who acts:** dragon king · **What happens:** greet, become · **To what, where:** each, cordial manner, fast friends

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon 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:pg74064:11:109
# text = The dragon-king and the younger ascetic greeted each other in a cordial manner, and became fast friends and inseparable companions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	9	obj	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	fixed	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	cordial	cordial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	inseparable	inseparable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | the dragon king and the younger ascetic | each |  | a cordial manner |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | the dragon king and the younger ascetic *not said here* | fast friends and inseparable companions |  |  |  |  | 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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