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title: Now Jewel-neck the dragon-king came out of the Ganges river, approac… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Jewel-neck the dragon-king came out of the Ganges river, approached the younger ascetic, and having approached, stood aside. Who acts: Jewel neck. 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 68

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Now Jewel-neck the dragon-king came out of the Ganges river, approached the younger ascetic, and having approached, stood aside.

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**Who acts:** Jewel neck · **What happens:** come out, approach, stand · **To what, where:** Ganges river, younger ascetic

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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 (Jewel neck), 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:pg74064:11:74
# text = Now Jewel-neck the dragon-king came out of the Ganges river, approached the younger ascetic, and having approached, stood aside.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	Jewel	Jewel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Ganges	Ganges	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	amod	_	_
19	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	aux	_	_
23	approached	approach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | Jewel neck | the Ganges river |  |  | now | the dragon king *nsubj* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient river=Result |
| 2 | **approach** | past | Jewel neck *not said here* | the younger ascetic |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ascetic=Theme |
| 3 | **approach** | gerund · perfect | Jewel neck *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **stand** | past | Jewel neck *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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