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title: And in obedience to his command they threw away all those wares in t… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And in obedience to his command they threw away all those wares in their own caravan which were of little worth, and took those wares in that other caravan which were of great worth. Who acts: drivers, own caravan, other caravan, leader. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burling
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 143

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And in obedience to his command they threw away all those wares in their own caravan which were of little worth, and took those wares in that other caravan which were of great worth.

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**Who acts:** drivers, own caravan, other caravan, leader · **What happens:** throw away, be, take, command · **To what, where:** wares, obedience, other caravan · **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 (drivers, own caravan, other caravan, leader), 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:pg74064:14:151
# text = And in obedience to his command they threw away all those wares in their own caravan which were of little worth, and took those wares in that other caravan which were of great worth.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	worth	worth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
25	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	wares	ware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	worth	worth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw away** | past | drivers *= driver* | all wares |  | obedience to leader's command |  | in drivers's own caravan; away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ware=Theme in obedience=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past | drivers's own caravan |  |  |  |  | of little worth | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | drivers *= driver* *not said here* | that wares |  | that other caravan |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ware=Value in caravan=Location |
| 4 | **is** | past | that other caravan |  |  |  |  | of great worth | tree rules |
| 5 | **command** |  | leader |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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