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title: Therefore from this time forth, cultivate friendship for the four ro… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore from this time forth, cultivate friendship for the four royal families of snakes in the following way.” Who acts: you. 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 31

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Therefore from this time forth, cultivate friendship for the four royal families of snakes in the following way.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** cultivate, follow · **To what, where:** friendship, following way

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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), 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:pg74064:12:32
# text = Therefore from this time forth, cultivate friendship for the four royal families of snakes in the following way.”
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cultivate	cultivate	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cultivate** | imperative | you *not said here* | friendship |  | the following way | time | for the four royal families of snakes; therefore *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent friendship=Product for family=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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