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title: Break the chatties to pieces, throw away the water, travel at ease.” — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Break the chatties to pieces, throw away the water, travel at ease.” 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 59

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Break the chatties to pieces, throw away the water, travel at ease.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** break, throw away · **To what, where:** chatties, 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:pg74064:15:59
# text = Break the chatties to pieces, throw away the water, travel at ease.”
1	Break	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	chatties	chatty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	travel	travel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | imperative | you *not said here* | the chatties |  |  |  | to pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent chatty=Patient to piece=Result |
| 2 | **throw away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the water |  |  |  | travel at ease *obl*; away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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