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title: The monkeys took the water-skins and wooden water-pots and watered t… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The monkeys took the water-skins and wooden water-pots and watered the young trees. Who acts: 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 139

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The monkeys took the water-skins and wooden water-pots and watered the young trees.

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**Who acts:** monkeys · **What happens:** take, water · **To what, where:** water skins, young trees

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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 (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:pg74064:13:147
# text = The monkeys took the water-skins and wooden water-pots and watered the young trees.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	watered	water	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the monkeys | the water skins and wooden water pots |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 2 | **water** | past | the monkeys *not said here* | the young trees |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Destination |

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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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