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title: The illustration to Story 14, _King and boar_, represents the boar f… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The illustration to Story 14, _King and boar_, represents the boar flying through the air by the magical power of the gem which he has just bitten. Who acts: illustration, boar. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 2, sentence 137

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The illustration to Story 14, \_King and boar\_, represents the boar flying through the air by the magical power of the gem which he has just bitten.

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**Who acts:** illustration, boar · **What happens:** story, represent, fly, bite · **To what, where:** 14, boar, air, gem

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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 (illustration, boar), 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:pg74064:2:141
# text = The illustration to Story 14, _King and boar_, represents the boar flying through the air by the magical power of the gem which he has just bitten.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	illustration	illustration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Story	story	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	14	14	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	represents	represent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	gem	gem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	just	just	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **story** | infinitive | the illustration *not said here* | 14 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **represent** | present | the illustration | the boar |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot boar=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | gerund | the boar *not said here* |  |  | the air |  | by the magical power of the gem | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
| 4 | **bite** | present · perfect · passive |  | the gem |  |  |  | king *nsubj:pass* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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