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title: Then, taking them with him, he went to the second dicer’s and said:… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, taking them with him, he went to the second dicer’s and said: “Come, sir, let us play at dice.” Who acts: Buddha, 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 74

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Then, taking them with him, he went to the second dicer’s and said: “Come, sir, let us play at dice.”

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**Who acts:** Buddha, us · **What happens:** take, go, say, come, sir, let · **To what, where:** personages, second dicer, us, dice · **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 (Buddha, 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:pg74064:14:79
# text = Then, taking them with him, he went to the second dicer’s and said: “Come, sir, let us play at dice.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	amod	_	_
13	dicer	dicer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	sir	sir	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	dice	dice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	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* | personages *= personage* |  |  | then | with Buddha | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | Buddha |  |  | the second dicer |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dicer=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Buddha *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sir** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **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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