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title: Thereupon, as it were cleaving the Vault of the Snow and releasing t… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon, as it were cleaving the Vault of the Snow and releasing the full moon, he revealed circumstances hidden by rebirth: Who acts: tube, Refuge. 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 7

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Thereupon, as it were cleaving the Vault of the Snow and releasing the full moon, he revealed circumstances hidden by rebirth:

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**Who acts:** tube, Refuge · **What happens:** cleave, release, reveal, hide · **To what, where:** Vault, full moon, circumstances

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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 (tube, Refuge), 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:pg74064:15:7
# text = Thereupon, as it were cleaving the Vault of the Snow and releasing the full moon, he revealed circumstances hidden by rebirth:
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	cleaving	cleave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Vault	Vault	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	releasing	release	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	rebirth	rebirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cleave** | past · progressive | tube | the Vault of the Snow |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vault=Patient |
| 2 | **release** | gerund | tube *not said here* | the full moon |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer moon=Source |
| 3 | **reveal** | past | Refuge | circumstances |  |  |  | thereupon *property* | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circumstance=Topic |
| 4 | **hide** | participle |  | circumstances *not said here* |  |  |  | by rebirth | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by rebirth=Location |

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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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