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title: Wherever it went, very quickly were consumed grass, sticks, water, a… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherever it went, very quickly were consumed grass, sticks, water, and pot-herbs. Who acts: caravan. 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 98

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Wherever it went, very quickly were consumed grass, sticks, water, and pot-herbs.

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**Who acts:** caravan · **What happens:** go, consume, be · **To what, where:** pot herbs, consumed grass

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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 (caravan), 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:pg74064:14:106
# text = Wherever it went, very quickly were consumed grass, sticks, water, and pot-herbs.
1	Wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | caravan | pot herbs |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **consume** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | consumed grass and sticks and water |  |  |  | sticks *conj*; water *conj*; quickly *property* | tree rules |

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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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