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title: When the griffin heard these words, he went to the sea of milk and d… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: When the griffin heard these words, he went to the sea of milk and displayed his mighty prowess in order to obtain the drink of immortality. 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 cl
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 64

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When the griffin heard these words, he went to the sea of milk and displayed his mighty prowess in order to obtain the drink of immortality.

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**Who acts:** griffin · **What happens:** hear, go, display, obtain · **To what, where:** words, sea, mighty prowess, order, drink

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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:pg74064:16:67
# text = When the griffin heard these words, he went to the sea of milk and displayed his mighty prowess in order to obtain the drink of immortality.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	griffin	griffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	displayed	display	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	prowess	prowess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	immortality	immortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | this words |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** | past | Griffin |  |  | the sea of milk |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **display** | past | Griffin *not said here* | Griffin's mighty prowess |  | order |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prowess=Theme |
| 4 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | Griffin *not said here* | the drink of immortality |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset drink=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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