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title: So that monk went there, plunged into that forest-grove, and through… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: So that monk went there, plunged into that forest-grove, and throughout the watches of the night cried out: “Let the pretty birds hear me, as many as roost in this forest-grove! Who acts: monk, watches, pretty birds. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 11
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 11, sentence 40

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So that monk went there, plunged into that forest-grove, and throughout the watches of the night cried out: “Let the pretty birds hear me, as many as roost in this forest-grove!

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

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

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | that monk |  |  | there |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **plunge** | participle | that monk *not said here* |  |  | that forest grove |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into grove=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past | the watches of the night |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | the watches of the night *not said here* | many roost in this forest grove |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** *in a quote* | present | the pretty birds | the watches of the night *= watch* |  |  |  |  | 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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