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title: And he gave orders to the gardener: “Pray give the noble monks fruit… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And he gave orders to the gardener: “Pray give the noble monks fruits and other such-like edibles.” Who acts: disciple, Pray. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 10

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And he gave orders to the gardener: “Pray give the noble monks fruits and other such-like edibles.”

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**Who acts:** disciple, Pray · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** orders, noble monks fruits · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (disciple, Pray), 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:pg74064:14:11
# text = And he gave orders to the gardener: “Pray give the noble monks fruits and other such-like edibles.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Pray	Pray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	monks	monks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	edibles	edible	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | disciple | orders |  |  |  | to the gardener | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | Pray | the noble monks fruits and other like edibles |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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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