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title: Let us throw away the water and go quickly with lightened carts.” — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Let us throw away the water and go quickly with lightened carts.” Who acts: you, us. 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 90

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Let us throw away the water and go quickly with lightened carts.”

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** let, throw away, go, lighten · **To what, where:** us, water

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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, us), 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:pg74064:15:90
# text = Let us throw away the water and go quickly with lightened carts.”
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	away	away	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	lightened	lighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw away** | infinitive | us *not said here* | the water |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with lightened carts; quickly *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with cart=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **lighten** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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