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title: The young parrot, unable to make headway by flying while the god was… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: The young parrot, unable to make headway by flying while the god was raining, went and perched on one side of that very tree-trunk. Who acts: young parrot, god. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 143

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The young parrot, unable to make headway by flying while the god was raining, went and perched on one side of that very tree-trunk.

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**Who acts:** young parrot, god · **What happens:** make, fly, rain, go, perch · **To what, where:** headway, one side

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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 (young parrot, god), 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:pg74064:3:149
# text = The young parrot, unable to make headway by flying while the god was raining, went and perched on one side of that very tree-trunk.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	headway	headway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	god	god	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	raining	rain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive | the young parrot *not said here* | headway |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset headway=Product |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | the young parrot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rain** | past · progressive | the god |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 4 | **go** | past | the young parrot |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **perch** | participle | the young parrot *not said here* |  |  | one side of tree trunk  that |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |

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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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