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title: Beyond that point the entire forest is one mass of water; it rains a… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Beyond that point the entire forest is one mass of water; it rains all the time; the hollows are full of water; in this place and in that are lakes completely covered with lotus-flowers both red and white.” Who acts: entire forest, it, hollows, that. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene W
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 49

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Beyond that point the entire forest is one mass of water; it rains all the time; the hollows are full of water; in this place and in that are lakes completely covered with lotus-flowers both red and white.”

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**Who acts:** entire forest, it, hollows, that · **What happens:** be, rain, cover · **To what, where:** one mass, 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: who acts (entire forest, it, hollows, that), 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:pg74064:15:49
# text = Beyond that point the entire forest is one mass of water; it rains all the time; the hollows are full of water; in this place and in that are lakes completely covered with lotus-flowers both red and white.”
1	Beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	rains	rain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hollows	hollow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	nsubj	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
34	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	lotus	lotus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
40	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc:preconj	_	_
41	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	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 entire forest | one mass |  |  |  | beyond that point; of water; this place and lakes *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rain** | present | it |  |  |  | time |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **is** | present | the hollows |  |  |  |  | of water; full *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | that |  |  | lakes |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cover** | participle |  | lakes *not said here* |  |  |  | with lotus flowers; completely *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=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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