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title: Throw away, sir, the old grass, sticks, and water; with lightly burd… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Throw away, sir, the old grass, sticks, and water; with lightly burdened carts go ever so quickly; do not overburden the conveyances.” Who acts: you, burdened carts. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 130

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Throw away, sir, the old grass, sticks, and water; with lightly burdened carts go ever so quickly; do not overburden the conveyances.”

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**Who acts:** you, burdened carts · **What happens:** throw away, burden, go, not overburden · **To what, where:** water, conveyances

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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 (you, burdened carts), 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:pg74064:14:138
# text = Throw away, sir, the old grass, sticks, and water; with lightly burdened carts go ever so quickly; do not overburden the conveyances.”
1	Throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	burdened	burden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
20	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	overburden	overburden	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	conveyances	conveyance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw away** | imperative | you *not said here* | water |  |  |  | sir *vocative*; away *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **burden** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | lightly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present | burdened carts |  |  |  | ever | quickly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **overburden** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | the conveyances |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme conveyance=Recipient |

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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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