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description: From the moment they heard the holiday drum, the residents of the entire city went about making holiday. Who acts: monks, residents. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 127

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From the moment they heard the holiday drum, the residents of the entire city went about making holiday.

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**Who acts:** monks, residents · **What happens:** hear, go, make · **To what, where:** holiday drum, holiday

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monks, residents), 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:pg74064:13:135
# text = From the moment they heard the holiday drum, the residents of the entire city went about making holiday.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	residents	resident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | monks *= monk* | the holiday drum |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer drum=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | past | the residents of the entire city |  |  |  | moment |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | the residents of the entire city *not said here* | holiday |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset holiday=Product |

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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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