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title: Now over that caravan were two caravan-leaders, one over five hundre… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Now over that caravan were two caravan-leaders, one over five hundred carts, one over five hundred carts. 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 99

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Now over that caravan were two caravan-leaders, one over five hundred carts, one over five hundred carts.

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**Who acts:** caravan · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** two caravan leaders

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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:pg74064:14:107
# text = Now over that caravan were two caravan-leaders, one over five hundred carts, one over five hundred carts.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
7	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	leaders	leader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
12	over	over	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
18	over	over	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	compound	_	_
20	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | that caravan | two caravan leaders and one hundred carts and one hundred carts |  |  |  | one hundred carts *conj* | 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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