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title: Of these five kinds of wildernesses, this wilderness was both a wate… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Of these five kinds of wildernesses, this wilderness was both a waterless wilderness and a demon-wilderness.) Who acts: wilderness. 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 35

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Of these five kinds of wildernesses, this wilderness was both a waterless wilderness and a demon-wilderness.)

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**Who acts:** wilderness · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** waterless wilderness

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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 (wilderness), 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:pg74064:15:35
# text = Of these five kinds of wildernesses, this wilderness was both a waterless wilderness and a demon-wilderness.)
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	wildernesses	wilderness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc:preconj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	waterless	waterless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | this wilderness | a waterless wilderness and a demon wilderness |  |  |  | of this five kinds of wildernesses; a demon wilderness *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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