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title: As Prince Five-weapons (9), he overcomes the giant ogre Sticky-hair… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: As Prince Five-weapons (9), he overcomes the giant ogre Sticky-hair with the Weapon of Knowledge. Who acts: Gotama. 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 13

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As Prince Five-weapons (9), he overcomes the giant ogre Sticky-hair with the Weapon of Knowledge.

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**Who acts:** Gotama · **What happens:** overcome · **To what, where:** giant ogre

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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 (Gotama), 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:pg74064:2:14
# text = As Prince Five-weapons (9), he overcomes the giant ogre Sticky-hair with the Weapon of Knowledge.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
3	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
6	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	overcomes	overcome	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	Sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Weapon	Weapon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Knowledge	Knowledge	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overcome** | present | Gotama | the giant ogre  Sticky hair with the Weapon of Knowledge |  |  |  | as Prince Five weapons | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ogre=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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