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title: “In bringing water thus far, of course, you have acted wisely. — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “In bringing water thus far, of course, you have acted wisely. Who acts: you. 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 56

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“In bringing water thus far, of course, you have acted wisely.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** bring, act · **To what, where:** water

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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 (you), 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:pg74064:15:56
# text = “In bringing water thus far, of course, you have acted wisely.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	acted	act	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
14	wisely	wisely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** *in a quote* | gerund |  | water |  |  |  | far *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 2 | **act** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | wisely *property* | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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