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title: In drawing the water-pots, the artist has followed the Bharahat scul… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: In drawing the water-pots, the artist has followed the Bharahat sculpture rather than the description given in the text. 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 14

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In drawing the water-pots, the artist has followed the Bharahat sculpture rather than the description given in the text.

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**What happens:** draw, follow, give · **To what, where:** water pots, artist, description, text

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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:pg74064:3:14
# text = In drawing the water-pots, the artist has followed the Bharahat sculpture rather than the description given in the text.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	pots	pot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	artist	artist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Bharahat	Bharahat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	sculpture	sculpture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	18	cc	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	description	description	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | gerund |  | the water pots |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | present · perfect · passive |  | the artist |  |  |  | the Bharahat sculpture rather the description *obj* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme sculpture=Attribute |
| 3 | **give** | participle |  | the description *not said here* |  | the text |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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