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title: _There is friendship ’twixt me and Virūpakkha snakes. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: _There is friendship ’twixt me and Virūpakkha snakes. Who acts: friendship ’. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 14

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\_There is friendship ’twixt me and Virūpakkha snakes.

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**Who acts:** friendship ’ · **What happens:** be

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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 (friendship ’), 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:pg74064:12:15
# text = _There is friendship ’twixt me and Virūpakkha snakes.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	’	'	X	GW	_	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	twixt	twixt	X	ADD	_	5	goeswith	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	goeswith	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	Virūpakkha	Virūpakkha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | friendship ’  me |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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