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title: Thought the foolish caravan-leader: “There are many advantages in my… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Thought the foolish caravan-leader: “There are many advantages in my going first. Who acts: many advantages, my. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 20

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Thought the foolish caravan-leader: “There are many advantages in my going first.

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**Who acts:** many advantages, my · **What happens:** think, be, go · **To what, where:** foolish caravan leader, many advantages · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many advantages, my), 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:pg74064:15:20
# text = Thought the foolish caravan-leader: “There are many advantages in my going first.
1	Thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	advantages	advantage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | the foolish caravan leader |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | many advantages |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | my | many advantages *not said here* |  |  |  | first *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location advantage=Theme |

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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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