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title: But afterwards, through the finding of his crest-jewel, his kinsfolk… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: But afterwards, through the finding of his crest-jewel, his kinsfolk and friends effected his deliverance from the power of the griffin, and a goddess sprinkled him with a potion, whereupon he arose more glorious than before, with all his limbs made whole again. Who acts: kinsfolk, goddess, griffin,
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 12

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But afterwards, through the finding of his crest-jewel, his kinsfolk and friends effected his deliverance from the power of the griffin, and a goddess sprinkled him with a potion, whereupon he arose more glorious than before, with all his limbs made whole again.

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**Who acts:** kinsfolk, goddess, griffin, limbs · **What happens:** affect, sprinkle, arise, make, find, deliver · **To what, where:** deliverance, finding, griffin, crest jewel

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kinsfolk, goddess, griffin, limbs), 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:pg74064:17:12
# text = But afterwards, through the finding of his crest-jewel, his kinsfolk and friends effected his deliverance from the power of the griffin, and a goddess sprinkled him with a potion, whereupon he arose more glorious than before, with all his limbs made whole again.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	finding	finding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	kinsfolk	kinsfolk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	effected	affect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	griffin	griffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	potion	potion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
39	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	40	advmod	_	_
40	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	xcomp	_	_
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	before	before	ADV	RB	_	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	47	det:predet	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	limbs	limb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
48	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
49	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	xcomp	_	_
50	again	again	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **affect** | past | griffin's kinsfolk and friends | griffin's deliverance |  | the finding of griffin's crest jewel |  | from the power of the griffin; afterwards *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus deliverance=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sprinkle** | past | a goddess |  | griffin |  |  | with a potion | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with potion=Theme |
| 3 | **arise** | past | griffin |  |  |  |  | glorious, whereupon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | griffin's limbs |  |  |  | again | whole *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **find** |  |  | griffin's crest jewel |  |  |  |  | nom finding «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **deliver** |  | griffin |  |  |  |  |  | nom deliverance «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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