--- title: Now that foolish caravan-leader, out of his own foolishness, took th… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: Now that foolish caravan-leader, out of his own foolishness, took the advice of the ogre, broke the chatties to pieces, threw away all of the water, leaving not so much as a dribble, and caused the carts to move forward. Who acts: that, foolish caravan leader, carts. A sentence of «The grateful elep --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/15/62/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The grateful elephant](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/) / [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/15/) / 62 # The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 62 Now that foolish caravan-leader, out of his own foolishness, took the advice of the ogre, broke the chatties to pieces, threw away all of the water, leaving not so much as a dribble, and caused the carts to move forward. **Who acts:** that, foolish caravan leader, carts · **What happens:** leader, take, break, throw away, leave, cause · **To what, where:** advice, chatties, all, much, carts 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 (that, foolish caravan leader, carts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:15:62 # text = Now that foolish caravan-leader, out of his own foolishness, took the advice of the ogre, broke the chatties to pieces, threw away all of the water, leaving not so much as a dribble, and caused the carts to move forward. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 2 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 3 foolish foolish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 4 caravan caravan NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 leader leader NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 out out ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 foolishness foolishness NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 14 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 ogre ogre NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 chatties chatty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 28 away away ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 obj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 obj _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 dribble dribble NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 caused cause VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 carts cart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ _ 48 forward forward ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leader** | | that | | | | now | ogre's own foolishness *conj* | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | past | foolish caravan leader and ogre's own foolishness | the advice of the ogre | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | | 3 | **break** | past | foolish caravan leader and ogre's own foolishness *not said here* | the chatties | | | | to pieces *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent chatty=Patient to piece=Result | | 4 | **throw away** | past | foolish caravan leader and ogre's own foolishness *not said here* | all of the water | | | | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | | 5 | **leave** | gerund | foolish caravan leader and ogre's own foolishness *not said here* | much | | | | as a dribble | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | | 6 | **cause** | past | | the carts | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **move forward** | to-infinitive | the carts *not said here* | | | | | forward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/15/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/15/63/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/15/)