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title: Next, setting forth Cultivation of Friendship without respect of per… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Next, setting forth Cultivation of Friendship without respect of persons, he recited this stanza: Who acts: Cultivation. 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 42

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Next, setting forth Cultivation of Friendship without respect of persons, he recited this stanza:

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**Who acts:** Cultivation · **What happens:** set, recite, cultivate, respect · **To what, where:** Cultivation, stanza, Friendship, persons

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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 (Cultivation), 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:pg74064:12:43
# text = Next, setting forth Cultivation of Friendship without respect of persons, he recited this stanza:
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	Cultivation	cultivation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Friendship	friendship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	recited	recite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	stanza	stanza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | gerund | Cultivation *not said here* | Cultivation of Friendship |  |  |  | without respect of persons; next *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient cultivation=Result |
| 2 | **recite** | past | Cultivation | this stanza |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stanza=Theme |
| 3 | **cultivate** |  |  | Friendship |  |  |  |  | nom cultivation «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **respect** |  |  | persons |  |  |  |  | nom respect «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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