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title: So giving him an emetic containing herbs, he made him vomit. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: So giving him an emetic containing herbs, he made him vomit. Who acts: Buddha, emetic, story. 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 85

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So giving him an emetic containing herbs, he made him vomit.

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**Who acts:** Buddha, emetic, story · **What happens:** give, contain, make, vomit · **To what, where:** emetic, Buddha, herbs, story

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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, emetic, story), 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:pg74064:14:90
# text = So giving him an emetic containing herbs, he made him vomit.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	iobj	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	emetic	emetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	vomit	vomit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | gerund | Buddha *not said here* | a emetic | Buddha |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient emetic=Theme |
| 2 | **contain** | gerund | a emetic *not said here* | herbs |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot herb=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | Buddha | story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **vomit** | infinitive | story *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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