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title: Relying on Noble-heart, a mighty host, delighted, Captured Kosala al… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Relying on Noble-heart, a mighty host, delighted, Captured Kosala alive, dissatisfied with his army. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 103

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Relying on Noble-heart, a mighty host, delighted, Captured Kosala alive, dissatisfied with his army.

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**What happens:** rely, capture · **To what, where:** mighty host

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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: 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:pg74064:3:105
# text = Relying on Noble-heart, a mighty host, delighted, Captured Kosala alive, dissatisfied with his army.
1	Relying	rely	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Noble	Noble	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Captured	capture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	Kosala	Kosala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
15	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	dissatisfied	dissatisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rely** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | on Noble heart | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on heart=Theme |
| 2 | **capture** | participle |  | a mighty host *not said here* |  |  |  | Kosala *xcomp* | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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