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title: So taking the dice to his own home, he painted them with deadly pois… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: So taking the dice to his own home, he painted them with deadly poison and let them dry thoroughly. Who acts: Buddha, personages. 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 73

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So taking the dice to his own home, he painted them with deadly poison and let them dry thoroughly.

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**Who acts:** Buddha, personages · **What happens:** take, paint, let, dry · **To what, where:** dice, own home, personages

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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 (Buddha, personages), 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:pg74064:14:78
# text = So taking the dice to his own home, he painted them with deadly poison and let them dry thoroughly.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	dice	dice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	painted	paint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | Buddha *not said here* | the dice |  | Buddha's own home |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dice=Theme to home=Destination |
| 2 | **paint** | past | Buddha | personages *= personage* |  |  |  | with deadly poison | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with poison=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | Buddha *not said here* | personages *= personage* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **dry** | infinitive | personages *= personage* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thoroughly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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