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title: The griffin agreed, and elated by the boon of Vishnu, he went to the… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The griffin agreed, and elated by the boon of Vishnu, he went to the snakes with the vessel containing 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 clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 16, sentence 69

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The griffin agreed, and elated by the boon of Vishnu, he went to the snakes with the vessel containing the drink of immortality.

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**Who acts:** griffin · **What happens:** agree, elate, go, contain · **To what, where:** 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:pg74064:16:72
# text = The griffin agreed, and elated by the boon of Vishnu, he went to the snakes with the vessel containing the drink of immortality.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	griffin	griffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	elated	elate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boon	boon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Vishnu	Vishnu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	vessel	vessel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	immortality	immortality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the griffin |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **elate** *not said to happen* | participle | the griffin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the boon of Vishnu | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go** | past | Griffin |  |  |  |  | to the snakes; with the vessel | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to snake=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **contain** | gerund | Griffin *not said here* | the drink of immortality |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot 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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