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title: And standing on his heart and breathing forth a solemn utterance, th… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And standing on his heart and breathing forth a solemn utterance, the quail uttered the second stanza: Who acts: quail. 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 34

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And standing on his heart and breathing forth a solemn utterance, the quail uttered the second stanza:

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**Who acts:** quail · **What happens:** stand, breathe, utter · **To what, where:** heart, solemn utterance, second stanza

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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 (quail), 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:pg74064:13:35
# text = And standing on his heart and breathing forth a solemn utterance, the quail uttered the second stanza:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	solemn	solemn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	utterance	utterance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	quail	quail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	stanza	stanza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  | hawk's heart |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on heart=Location |
| 2 | **breathe** | gerund |  | a solemn utterance |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme |
| 3 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | the quail | the second stanza |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stanza=Topic |

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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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