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title: Suppose we were to live hereafter offering respectful greetings and… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Suppose we were to live hereafter offering respectful greetings and the other marks of courtesy to that one of us who is the oldest!” Who acts: you, we, hereafter, one. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 106

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Suppose we were to live hereafter offering respectful greetings and the other marks of courtesy to that one of us who is the oldest!”

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**Who acts:** you, we, hereafter, one · **What happens:** suppose, live, offer, be, mark · **To what, where:** hereafter, respectful greetings, one, courtesy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we, hereafter, one), 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:pg74064:12:111
# text = Suppose we were to live hereafter offering respectful greetings and the other marks of courtesy to that one of us who is the oldest!”
1	Suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
6	hereafter	hereafter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	greetings	greeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | we | hereafter |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hereafter=Location |
| 3 | **offer** | gerund | hereafter *not said here* | respectful greetings and the other marks of courtesy | that one of us |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme to one=Goal |
| 4 | **is** | present | that one of us |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **mark** |  |  | courtesy |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition 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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