--- title: Neither in the first stage of the journey, nor in the second, nor in… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: Neither in the first stage of the journey, nor in the second, nor in the third, nor in the fourth, nor in the fifth, nor in the sixth, nor in the seventh, did they see grass or sticks or water; they all met destruction and death. Who acts: first stage, grass. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/14/118/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/14/) / 118 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 118 Neither in the first stage of the journey, nor in the second, nor in the third, nor in the fourth, nor in the fifth, nor in the sixth, nor in the seventh, did they see grass or sticks or water; they all met destruction and death. **Who acts:** first stage, grass · **What happens:** see, stick, meet · **To what, where:** grass, water, destruction 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 (first stage, grass), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:14:126 # text = Neither in the first stage of the journey, nor in the second, nor in the third, nor in the fourth, nor in the fifth, nor in the sixth, nor in the seventh, did they see grass or sticks or water; they all met destruction and death. 1 Neither neither ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 amod _ _ 5 stage stage NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 13 cc _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 18 cc _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 23 cc _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 fourth fourth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 28 cc _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 fifth fifth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 33 cc _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 sixth sixth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 38 cc _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 seventh seventh NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 40 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 43 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 44 or or CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 sticks stick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 46 or or CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ; ; PUNCT : _ 51 punct _ _ 49 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ _ 50 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 51 nsubj _ _ 51 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ _ 52 destruction destruction NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past · do-support | the first stage of the journey nor the sixth | grass | | | | stage *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grass=Stimulus | | 2 | **stick** | present | the first stage of the journey nor the sixth *not said here* | water | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 3 | **meet** | past | grass | destruction and death | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent destruction=Co-Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/14/117/) - next →: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/14/119/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/14/)