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title: “For, monks, so it goes with whoever walks in forbidden ground, in a… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “For, monks, so it goes with whoever walks in forbidden ground, in a foreign region. Who acts: breast, whoever. 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 158

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“For, monks, so it goes with whoever walks in forbidden ground, in a foreign region.

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**Who acts:** breast, whoever · **What happens:** go, walk, forbid · **To what, where:** monks, forbidden ground

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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 (breast, whoever), 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:pg74064:12:166
# text = “For, monks, so it goes with whoever walks in forbidden ground, in a foreign region.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	monks	monk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	walks	walk	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* | present | breast | monks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location monk=Theme |
| 2 | **walk** *in a quote* | present | whoever |  |  | forbidden ground |  | in a foreign region | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ground=Trajectory |
| 3 | **forbid** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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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