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title: Then--wonderful to relate!--all the snakes that he had previously ea… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Then--wonderful to relate!--all the snakes that he had previously eaten returned to life again. Who acts: snakes. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 17, sentence 18

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Then--wonderful to relate!--all the snakes that he had previously eaten returned to life again.

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**Who acts:** snakes · **What happens:** relate, eat, return

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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 (snakes), 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:pg74064:17:18
# text = Then--wonderful to relate!--all the snakes that he had previously eaten returned to life again.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	relate	relate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	returned	return	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **relate** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | past · perfect | all snakes |  |  |  |  | rain *nsubj*; previously *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **return** | participle | all snakes *not said here* |  |  |  | again | to life *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to life=Result |

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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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