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title: If you do so, that dragon-king will depart without so much as encirc… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: If you do so, that dragon-king will depart without so much as encircling you with his coils. Who acts: you, 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 115

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If you do so, that dragon-king will depart without so much as encircling you with his coils.

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**Who acts:** you, dragon king · **What happens:** do, depart, encircle · **To what, where:** much, you

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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 (you, 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:pg74064:11:122
# text = If you do so, that dragon-king will depart without so much as encircling you with his coils.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	encircling	encircle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	coils	coil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **depart** | future | dragon king | much |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme much=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **encircle** | gerund | dragon king *not said here* |  | you |  |  | with king's coils | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Destination with coil=Theme |

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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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