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title: They would go up-stream in a boat, cut timber for building materials… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: They would go up-stream in a boat, cut timber for building materials for houses in the forest, and prepare houses of one or more stories on the spot. Who acts: carpenters. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 3, sentence 26

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They would go up-stream in a boat, cut timber for building materials for houses in the forest, and prepare houses of one or more stories on the spot.

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**Who acts:** carpenters · **What happens:** go up, build, prepare · **To what, where:** stream, materials, forest, houses, spot

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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 (carpenters), 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:pg74064:3:28
# text = They would go up-stream in a boat, cut timber for building materials for houses in the forest, and prepare houses of one or more stories on the spot.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	cut	cut	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	timber	timber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	materials	material	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	conj	_	_
29	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | would | carpenters *= carpenter* | stream |  |  |  | in a boat and cut timber | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in boat=Attribute |
| 2 | **build** | gerund | carpenters *= carpenter* *not said here* | materials |  | the forest |  | for houses | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent material=Product for house=Asset |
| 3 | **prepare** | infinitive | carpenters *= carpenter* *not said here* | houses of one stories |  | the spot |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=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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