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title: Therefore that caravan-leader set many huge chatties in the carts an… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore that caravan-leader set many huge chatties in the carts and had them filled with water before he struck into the sixty-league wilderness. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 36

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Therefore that caravan-leader set many huge chatties in the carts and had them filled with water before he struck into the sixty-league wilderness.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** fill, strike · **To what, where:** leader set, league 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 (king), 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:pg74064:15:36
# text = Therefore that caravan-leader set many huge chatties in the carts and had them filled with water before he struck into the sixty-league wilderness.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
3	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	set	set	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chatties	chatty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	wilderness	wilderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past · perfect · passive |  | that leader set |  |  |  | with water; therefore *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with water=Instrument |
| 2 | **strike** | past | king |  |  | the league wilderness |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wilderness=Location |

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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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