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title: The illustration to Story 17, _Dragon Jewel-neck_, represents the ki… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The illustration to Story 17, _Dragon Jewel-neck_, represents the king of the dragons encircling the ascetic with his coils. Who acts: illustration, dragons. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 1

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The illustration to Story 17, \_Dragon Jewel-neck\_, represents the king of the dragons encircling the ascetic with his coils.

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**Who acts:** illustration, dragons · **What happens:** story, represent, encircle · **To what, where:** 17, king, ascetic

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (illustration, dragons), 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:pg74064:3:1
# text = The illustration to Story 17, _Dragon Jewel-neck_, represents the king of the dragons encircling the ascetic with his coils.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	illustration	illustration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Story	story	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	Jewel	Jewel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	represents	represent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	encircling	encircle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	coils	coil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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* | 17 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **represent** | present | the illustration | the king of the dragons |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot king=Theme |
| 3 | **encircle** | gerund | the dragons *not said here* | the ascetic |  |  |  | with illustration's coils | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ascetic=Destination with coil=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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