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title: Thence, Reverend Sir, do I come, driven away by the noise of that fl… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Thence, Reverend Sir, do I come, driven away by the noise of that flock of birds.” Who acts: Reverend Sir, flock. 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 34

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Thence, Reverend Sir, do I come, driven away by the noise of that flock of birds.”

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**Who acts:** Reverend Sir, flock · **What happens:** come, drive away, noise

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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 (Reverend Sir, flock), 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:pg74064:11:37
# text = Thence, Reverend Sir, do I come, driven away by the noise of that flock of birds.”
1	Thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Reverend	Reverend	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present · do-support | Reverend Sir |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drive away** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the noise of that flock of birds; away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **noise** |  | that flock of birds |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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