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title: Henceforth to you will we offer respect, reverence, veneration, salu… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Henceforth to you will we offer respect, reverence, veneration, salutation, and honor; to you will we offer respectful greeting, rising on meeting, homage with joined hands, and proper courtesy; in your admonitions will we abide steadfast. Who acts: we, your. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 124

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Henceforth to you will we offer respect, reverence, veneration, salutation, and honor; to you will we offer respectful greeting, rising on meeting, homage with joined hands, and proper courtesy; in your admonitions will we abide steadfast.

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**Who acts:** we, your · **What happens:** offer, rise, join, abide, admonish · **To what, where:** respect, you, respectful greeting, meeting, admonitions

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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 (we, your), 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:pg74064:12:129
# text = Henceforth to you will we offer respect, reverence, veneration, salutation, and honor; to you will we offer respectful greeting, rising on meeting, homage with joined hands, and proper courtesy; in your admonitions will we abide steadfast.
1	Henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	veneration	veneration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	salutation	salutation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	honor	honor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	offer	offer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
23	respectful	respectful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	homage	homage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	courtesy	courtesy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	admonitions	admonition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
42	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
45	steadfast	steadfast	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer** | future | we | respect and reverence and veneration and salutation and honor | you |  |  | proper courtesy *obl*; henceforth *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent respect=Theme to you=Goal |
| 2 | **offer** | future | we | respectful greeting | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme to you=Goal |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | we *not said here* |  |  | meeting |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on meeting=Location |
| 4 | **join** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **abide** | future | we |  |  | your admonitions |  | steadfast *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **admonish** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom admonition «communication transitive»: poss=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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