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title: Three times did the younger ascetic beg the jewel of Jewel-neck the… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Three times did the younger ascetic beg the jewel of Jewel-neck the dragon-king, and three times did Jewel-neck the dragon-king depart. 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 72

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Three times did the younger ascetic beg the jewel of Jewel-neck the dragon-king, and three times did Jewel-neck the dragon-king depart.

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**What happens:** do · **To what, where:** younger ascetic beg, Jewel neck

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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: 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:pg74064:11:78
# text = Three times did the younger ascetic beg the jewel of Jewel-neck the dragon-king, and three times did Jewel-neck the dragon-king depart.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
6	ascetic	ascetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	beg	beg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Jewel	Jewel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	Jewel	Jewel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	depart	depart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the younger ascetic beg |  |  | time | the jewel of Jewel neck *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past |  | Jewel neck |  |  | time | the king depart *obl:unmarked* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Eventuality |

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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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