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title: There is friendship ’twixt me and Virūpakkha snakes, There is friend… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: There is friendship ’twixt me and Virūpakkha snakes, There is friendship ’twixt me and Erāpatha snakes, There is friendship ’twixt me and Chabyāputta snakes, There is friendship ’twixt me and Black Gotamaka snakes. Who acts: friendship. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlinga
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 164

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There is friendship ’twixt me and Virūpakkha snakes, There is friendship ’twixt me and Erāpatha snakes, There is friendship ’twixt me and Chabyāputta snakes, There is friendship ’twixt me and Black Gotamaka snakes.

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**Who acts:** friendship · **What happens:** be

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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 (friendship), 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:pg74064:11:175
# text = There is friendship ’twixt me and Virūpakkha snakes, There is friendship ’twixt me and Erāpatha snakes, There is friendship ’twixt me and Chabyāputta snakes, There is friendship ’twixt me and Black Gotamaka snakes.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	’	'	X	GW	_	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	twixt	twixt	X	ADD	_	4	goeswith	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	goeswith	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	Virūpakkha	Virūpakkha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
14	’	'	X	GW	_	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	twixt	twixt	X	ADD	_	14	goeswith	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	goeswith	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Erāpatha	Erāpatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	’	'	X	GW	_	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	twixt	twixt	X	ADD	_	24	goeswith	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	goeswith	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	Chabyāputta	Chabyāputta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
33	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
34	’	'	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	twixt	twixt	X	ADD	_	34	goeswith	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	goeswith	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
38	Black	Black	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	Gotamaka	Gotamaka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | friendship |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | friendship |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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