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title: “But, monk, do you wish that flock of birds never to come back again?” — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “But, monk, do you wish that flock of birds never to come back again?” Who acts: you. 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 35

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“But, monk, do you wish that flock of birds never to come back again?”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wish, not come back · **To what, where:** flock

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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), 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:pg74064:11:38
# text = “But, monk, do you wish that flock of birds never to come back again?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | that flock of birds |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **come back** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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