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title: But wherever we do see water, there we shall throw away the water we… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: But wherever we do see water, there we shall throw away the water we have brought, and having thus lightened our carts, shall continue our journey.” Who acts: we, our. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 15, sentence 85

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But wherever we do see water, there we shall throw away the water we have brought, and having thus lightened our carts, shall continue our journey.”

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**Who acts:** we, our · **What happens:** see, throw away, bring, lighten, continue, journey · **To what, where:** water, carts, journey

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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 (we, our), 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:pg74064:15:85
# text = But wherever we do see water, there we shall throw away the water we have brought, and having thus lightened our carts, shall continue our journey.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	away	away	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	aux	_	_
21	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	lightened	lighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
28	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · do-support | we | water |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
| 2 | **throw away** | shall | we | the water |  | there |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** | present · perfect | we | the water *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 4 | **lighten** | gerund · perfect | we *not said here* | our carts |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cart=Patient |
| 5 | **continue** | shall | we *not said here* | our journey |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme |
| 6 | **journey** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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