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title: Are the lakes completely covered with water-lilies both blue and whi… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Are the lakes completely covered with water-lilies both blue and white, and lotus-flowers both red and white?” 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 46

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Are the lakes completely covered with water-lilies both blue and white, and lotus-flowers both red and white?”

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**What happens:** be, cover · **To what, where:** lakes

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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: 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:pg74064:15:46
# text = Are the lakes completely covered with water-lilies both blue and white, and lotus-flowers both red and white?”
1	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
10	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc:preconj	_	_
11	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc:preconj	_	_
20	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the lakes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | participle · passive |  | the lakes |  |  |  | completely *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |

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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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