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title: There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings without feet, There… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings without feet, There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings with two feet, There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings with four feet, There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings with many feet. Who acts: friendship, friendship ’. A sentence 
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 12, sentence 36

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There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings without feet, There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings with two feet, There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings with four feet, There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings with many feet.

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**Who acts:** friendship, 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, 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:pg74064:12:37
# text = There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings without feet, There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings with two feet, There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings with four feet, There is friendship ’twixt me and living beings with many feet.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	’	'	X	GW	_	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	twixt	twixt	X	ADD	_	4	goeswith	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	goeswith	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	14	expl	_	_
14	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
16	’	'	ADJ	GW	Degree=Pos|Typo=Yes	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	twixt	twixt	X	ADD	_	16	goeswith	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	27	expl	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
29	’	'	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	twixt	twixt	X	ADD	_	29	goeswith	_	_
31	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	40	expl	_	_
40	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
41	friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	’	'	X	GW	_	40	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	twixt	twixt	X	ADD	_	42	goeswith	_	_
44	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	goeswith	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | friendship |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **does** | present | friendship  me with four feet and living beings with two feet and living beings |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **be** | present | friendship ’  me with many feet |  |  | 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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