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title: The third time, Jewel-neck the dragon-king addressed the younger asc… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The third time, Jewel-neck the dragon-king addressed the younger ascetic with stanzas: Who acts: dragon king. 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 73

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The third time, Jewel-neck the dragon-king addressed the younger ascetic with stanzas:

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**Who acts:** dragon king · **What happens:** address · **To what, where:** 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 (dragon king), 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:pg74064:11:79
# text = The third time, Jewel-neck the dragon-king addressed the younger ascetic with stanzas:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Jewel	Jewel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	stanzas	stanza	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** | past | the dragon king | the younger ascetic |  |  | time | with stanzas | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ascetic=Destination with stanza=Theme |

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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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