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title: Lend ear and listen as attentively as though you were filling a gold… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Lend ear and listen as attentively as though you were filling a golden tube with lion-marrow.” 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 6

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Lend ear and listen as attentively as though you were filling a golden tube with lion-marrow.”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** lend, listen, fill · **To what, where:** ear, golden tube

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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:pg74064:15:6
# text = Lend ear and listen as attentively as though you were filling a golden tube with lion-marrow.”
1	Lend	lend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	listen	listen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	attentively	attentively	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tube	tube	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	marrow	marrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lend** | imperative | you *not said here* | ear |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 2 | **listen** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | attentively *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fill** | past · progressive | you | a golden tube |  |  |  | with lion marrow | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tube=Patient with marrow=Instrument |

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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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