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description: “Well then, monk, go there, plunge into that forest-grove, and throughout the watches of the night cry out: ‘Let the pretty birds hear me, as many as roost in this forest-grove! Who acts: monk, pretty birds. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11, with it
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 37

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“Well then, monk, go there, plunge into that forest-grove, and throughout the watches of the night cry out: ‘Let the pretty birds hear me, as many as roost in this forest-grove!

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**Who acts:** monk, pretty birds · **What happens:** go, cry out, let, hear · **To what, where:** plunge, forest grove, watches, many roost, Supremely

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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 (monk, pretty birds), 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:pg74064:11:40
# text = “Well then, monk, go there, plunge into that forest-grove, and throughout the watches of the night cry out: ‘Let the pretty birds hear me, as many as roost in this forest-grove!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	monk	monk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	plunge	plunge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	watches	watch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	xcomp	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	as	as	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	fixed	_	_
38	roost	roost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
41	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | monk | plunge |  | that forest grove; there | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into grove=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* *in a quote* | infinitive | monk *not said here* |  |  | the watches of the night |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme throughout watch=Location |
| 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | many roost in this forest grove |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | present | the pretty birds | Supremely |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |

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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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