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title: Thought the gardener: “I’ll go make holiday;” and said to the monkey… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Thought the gardener: “I’ll go make holiday;” and said to the monkeys who lived in the garden: “This garden is of great use to you. Who acts: I, monkeys, garden. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 14, sentence 20

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Thought the gardener: “I’ll go make holiday;” and said to the monkeys who lived in the garden: “This garden is of great use to you.

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**Who acts:** I, monkeys, garden · **What happens:** think, go, make, say, live, be · **To what, where:** gardener, holiday, monkeys, garden, you · **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 (I, monkeys, garden), 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:pg74064:14:21
# text = Thought the gardener: “I’ll go make holiday;” and said to the monkeys who lived in the garden: “This garden is of great use to you.
1	Thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
10	holiday	holiday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	ccomp	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | the gardener |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent gardener=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | future | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **make** *in a quote* | present | I *not said here* | holiday |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset holiday=Product |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the monkeys |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to monkey=Recipient |
| 5 | **live** | past | the monkeys |  |  | the garden |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this garden |  | you |  |  | of great use | tree rules |

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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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