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title: He said to his slaves and servants: “Come, fellows! take me and cond… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: He said to his slaves and servants: “Come, fellows! take me and conduct me to mid-stream and bathe me and bring me back.” Who acts: cloud. 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 122

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He said to his slaves and servants: “Come, fellows! take me and conduct me to mid-stream and bathe me and bring me back.”

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**Who acts:** cloud · **What happens:** say, come, take, conduct, bathe, bring back · **To what, where:** slaves, cloud, mid-stream · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (cloud), 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:pg74064:3:127
# text = He said to his slaves and servants: “Come, fellows! take me and conduct me to mid-stream and bathe me and bring me back.”
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
14	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	conduct	conduct	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	mid-stream	mid-stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | cloud |  | cloud's slaves and servants |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to slave=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | fellows *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | cloud |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 4 | **conduct** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | cloud |  | mid-stream |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to mid-stream=Destination |
| 5 | **bathe** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | cloud |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Destination |
| 6 | **bring back** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  | cloud |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |

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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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