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title: Now that dicer painted the dice with poison, and said this to that d… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Now that dicer painted the dice with poison, and said this to that dicer: “Come, sir, let us play at dice.” Who acts: dicer, us. 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 53

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Now that dicer painted the dice with poison, and said this to that dicer: “Come, sir, let us play at dice.”

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**Who acts:** dicer, us · **What happens:** paint, say, come, sir, let, play · **To what, where:** dice, this, us · **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 (dicer, us), 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:pg74064:14:57
# text = Now that dicer painted the dice with poison, and said this to that dicer: “Come, sir, let us play at dice.”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	dicer	dicer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	dice	dice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	dicer	dicer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	sir	sir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
23	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	dice	dice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **paint** | past | that dicer | the dice |  |  | now | with poison | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent dice=Destination with poison=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | that dicer *not said here* | this |  |  |  | to that dicer | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sir** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **play** *in a quote* | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | dice |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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