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title: And they assembled and met together and began preparations to attack… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: And they assembled and met together and began preparations to attack the kingdom of Jīmūta-ketu and to overthrow it and to take possession of the wishing-tree that granted all desires. Who acts: relatives, wishing tree. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 42

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And they assembled and met together and began preparations to attack the kingdom of Jīmūta-ketu and to overthrow it and to take possession of the wishing-tree that granted all desires.

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**Who acts:** relatives, wishing tree · **What happens:** assemble, meet, begin, attack, overthrow, take · **To what, where:** preparations, kingdom, possession, desires, wishing tree

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (relatives, wishing tree), 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:pg74064:16:44
# text = And they assembled and met together and began preparations to attack the kingdom of Jīmūta-ketu and to overthrow it and to take possession of the wishing-tree that granted all desires.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	attack	attack	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Jīmūta	Jīmūta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	ketu	ketu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	overthrow	overthrow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
25	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	wishing	wishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	granted	grant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	desires	desire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | past | relatives *= relative* |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | relatives *= relative* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **begin** | past | relatives *= relative* *not said here* | preparations |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **attack** | to-infinitive | relatives *= relative* *not said here* | the kingdom of Jīmūta ketu |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient |
| 5 | **overthrow** | to-infinitive | relatives *= relative* *not said here* | kingdom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | to-infinitive | relatives *= relative* *not said here* | possession of the wishing tree |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 7 | **grant** | past | the wishing tree | all desires |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent desire=Theme |
| 8 | **possess** |  |  | the wishing tree |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=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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