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title: Thus the hawk, with heart broken and eyes bulging out, met destructi… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus the hawk, with heart broken and eyes bulging out, met destruction. Who acts: eyes. 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 26

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Thus the hawk, with heart broken and eyes bulging out, met destruction.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** break, bulge out, meet · **To what, where:** heart, hawk

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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 (eyes), 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:pg74064:13:27
# text = Thus the hawk, with heart broken and eyes bulging out, met destruction.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
7	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	bulging	bulge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | participle |  | heart *not said here* |  |  |  | eyes and met destruction *conj* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bulge out** | gerund | eyes and met destruction *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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