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title: Moreover, on the bank of that very river there was a certain silk-co… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Moreover, on the bank of that very river there was a certain silk-cotton tree, and in it lived a certain young parrot. 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 141

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Moreover, on the bank of that very river there was a certain silk-cotton tree, and in it lived a certain young parrot.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** tree

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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:pg74064:3:147
# text = Moreover, on the bank of that very river there was a certain silk-cotton tree, and in it lived a certain young parrot.
1	Moreover	moreover	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
14	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	cotton	cotton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
22	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | tree |  | a certain young parrot *obj*; live *property* | tree rules |

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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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