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title: He had a son named Prince Wicked, and Prince Wicked was as tough and… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: He had a son named Prince Wicked, and Prince Wicked was as tough and hard as a beaten snake. Who acts: Benāres, Prince Wicked. 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 116

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He had a son named Prince Wicked, and Prince Wicked was as tough and hard as a beaten snake.

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**Who acts:** Benāres, Prince Wicked · **What happens:** have, name, be, beat · **To what, where:** son

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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 (Benāres, Prince Wicked), 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:pg74064:3:121
# text = He had a son named Prince Wicked, and Prince Wicked was as tough and hard as a beaten snake.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Wicked	Wicked	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Wicked	Wicked	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	tough	tough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Benāres | a son |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a son *not said here* |  |  |  | Prince Wicked *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Prince Wicked |  |  |  |  | tough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | Prince Wicked *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a beaten snake | tree rules |
| 5 | **beat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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