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title: “Just now some men said: ‘Beyond that dark green streak of woods it… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “Just now some men said: ‘Beyond that dark green streak of woods it is raining.’ Who acts: men, it. 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 94

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“Just now some men said: ‘Beyond that dark green streak of woods it is raining.’

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**Who acts:** men, it · **What happens:** say, rain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (men, it), 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:pg74064:15:94
# text = “Just now some men said: ‘Beyond that dark green streak of woods it is raining.’
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	streak	streak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	raining	rain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | some men |  |  |  | now | dark green streak  that of woods *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **rain** *in a quote* | present · progressive | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |

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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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