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title: So saying, he gave those monkeys water-skins and wooden water-pots t… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying, he gave those monkeys water-skins and wooden water-pots to use in watering the trees, and departed. Who acts: holiday, monkeys. 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 138

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So saying, he gave those monkeys water-skins and wooden water-pots to use in watering the trees, and departed.

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**Who acts:** holiday, monkeys · **What happens:** say, give, skin, use, water, depart · **To what, where:** trees · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (holiday, monkeys), 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:pg74064:13:146
# text = So saying, he gave those monkeys water-skins and wooden water-pots to use in watering the trees, and departed.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
7	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	watering	water	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | holiday *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | holiday |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **skin** |  | monkeys |  |  |  |  | wooden water pots *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** | to-infinitive | holiday *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **water** | gerund | holiday *not said here* | the trees |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Destination |
| 6 | **depart** | past | holiday *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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