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title: The honest dicer is therefore made to administer an emetic to his co… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The honest dicer is therefore made to administer an emetic to his companion and to admonish him. Who acts: honest dicer. 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 40

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The honest dicer is therefore made to administer an emetic to his companion and to admonish him.

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**Who acts:** honest dicer · **What happens:** make, administer, admonish · **To what, where:** honest dicer, emetic, companion, latter

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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 (honest dicer), 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:pg74064:2:42
# text = The honest dicer is therefore made to administer an emetic to his companion and to admonish him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	dicer	dicer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	administer	administer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	emetic	emetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	admonish	admonish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive |  | the honest dicer |  |  |  | therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **administer** | to-infinitive | the honest dicer *not said here* | a emetic | latter's companion |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent emetic=Theme to companion=Recipient |
| 3 | **admonish** | to-infinitive | the honest dicer *not said here* |  | latter |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |

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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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