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title: When the griffin, the son of Vinatā, heard of that, he came and trie… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: When the griffin, the son of Vinatā, heard of that, he came and tried to induce Kadrū to release Vinatā from slavery. Who acts: griffin. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 61

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When the griffin, the son of Vinatā, heard of that, he came and tried to induce Kadrū to release Vinatā from slavery.

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**Who acts:** griffin · **What happens:** hear, come, try, induce, release · **To what, where:** Kadrū, Vinatā, slavery

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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 (griffin), 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:pg74064:16:64
# text = When the griffin, the son of Vinatā, heard of that, he came and tried to induce Kadrū to release Vinatā from slavery.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	griffin	griffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Vinatā	Vinatā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	induce	induce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	Kadrū	Kadrū	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	Vinatā	Vinatā	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the griffin |  |  |  |  | of that | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | past | Griffin |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **try** | past | Griffin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **induce** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Griffin *not said here* | Kadrū |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent kadrū=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **release** | to-infinitive | Griffin *not said here* | Vinatā |  | slavery |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer vinatā=Source |

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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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