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title: The bones of their hands and all their other bones lay scattered abo… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The bones of their hands and all their other bones lay scattered about in the four directions and the four intermediate directions; five hundred carts stood as full as ever. Who acts: hundred carts. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15, with its depende
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 70

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The bones of their hands and all their other bones lay scattered about in the four directions and the four intermediate directions; five hundred carts stood as full as ever.

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**Who acts:** hundred carts · **What happens:** scatter, stand · **To what, where:** bones

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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 (hundred carts), 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:pg74064:15:70
# text = The bones of their hands and all their other bones lay scattered about in the four directions and the four intermediate directions; five hundred carts stood as full as ever.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	intermediate	intermediate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	_
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scatter** | present · passive |  | the bones of bones's hands and bones's other bones |  |  |  | about the four directions and the four intermediate directions | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme about direction=Destination |
| 2 | **stand** | past | hundred carts |  |  |  |  | full *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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