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title: The drawing of the ogre follows closely the description given in the… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The drawing of the ogre follows closely the description given in the text. Who acts: drawing, ogre. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 125

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The drawing of the ogre follows closely the description given in the text.

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**Who acts:** drawing, ogre · **What happens:** follow, give, draw · **To what, where:** description, text

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drawing, ogre), 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:pg74064:2:129
# text = The drawing of the ogre follows closely the description given in the text.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drawing	drawing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | present | the drawing of the ogre | the description |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent description=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | participle |  | the description *not said here* |  | the text |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **draw** |  | the ogre |  |  |  |  |  | nom drawing «communication intransitive»: of=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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