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title: The dragon-king, still remaining in the water, refused the ascetic,… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The dragon-king, still remaining in the water, refused the ascetic, reciting these two stanzas: 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 127

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The dragon-king, still remaining in the water, refused the ascetic, reciting these two stanzas:

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**Who acts:** dragon king · **What happens:** remain, refuse, recite · **To what, where:** water, ascetic, two stanzas

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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:pg74064:11:135
# text = The dragon-king, still remaining in the water, refused the ascetic, reciting these two stanzas:
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	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	reciting	recite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	stanzas	stanza	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | gerund | the dragon king *not said here* |  |  | the water | still |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location |
| 2 | **refuse** | past | the dragon king | the ascetic |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ascetic=Theme |
| 3 | **recite** | gerund | the dragon king *not said here* | this two stanzas |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stanza=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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