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title: For fear of him I am lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: For fear of him I am lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, my body strewn with veins.” Who acts: I, body. 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 61

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For fear of him I am lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, my body strewn with veins.”

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**Who acts:** I, body · **What happens:** be, dry up, fear · **To what, where:** Jewel

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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 (I, body), 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:pg74064:11:67
# text = For fear of him I am lean, dried-up, pale, yellow as ever was yellow, my body strewn with veins.”
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | for fear of Jewel; lean *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dry up** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **be** |  | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | I *not said here* |  |  |  | ever | yellow *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | my body |  |  |  |  | with veins | tree rules |
| 7 | **fear** |  |  | Jewel |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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