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title: A second time also those dicers played at dice; a second time also t… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: A second time also those dicers played at dice; a second time also that dicer swallowed every ace. Who acts: dicers, dicer. 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 55

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A second time also those dicers played at dice; a second time also that dicer swallowed every ace.

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**Who acts:** dicers, dicer · **What happens:** play, swallow · **To what, where:** dice, ace

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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 (dicers, dicer), 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:pg74064:14:59
# text = A second time also those dicers played at dice; a second time also that dicer swallowed every ace.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	dicers	dicer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	dice	dice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	dicer	dicer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	ace	ace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | that dicers |  |  | dice | time |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **swallow** | past | dicer | every ace |  |  | time |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ace=Patient |

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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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