--- title: Maddened with pain, hearing the sound of those carpenters fashioning… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: Maddened with pain, hearing the sound of those carpenters fashioning timbers, thinking to himself, “With the help of these carpenters I can get relief,” he went to them on three feet and lay down not far off. Who acts: carpenters, I, Elephant. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (carpenters, I, Elephant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:3:34 # text = Maddened with pain, hearing the sound of those carpenters fashioning timbers, thinking to himself, “With the help of these carpenters I can get relief,” he went to them on three feet and lay down not far off. 1 Maddened madden VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 hearing hear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 10 det _ _ 10 carpenters carpenter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 11 fashioning fashion VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 timbers timber NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 18 “ " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 With with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 24 det _ _ 24 carpenters carpenter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 28 relief relief NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ” " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 40 down down ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 43 advmod _ _ 43 off off ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **madden** | participle | | | | | | with pain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **hear** | gerund | | the sound of that carpenters | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | | 3 | **fashion** | gerund | that carpenters *not said here* | timbers | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timber=Product | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | | | Elephant | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **get** *in a quote* | can | I | relief | | | | with the help of this carpenters | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer relief=Stimulus | | 6 | **go** | past | Elephant | | carpenters *= carpenter* | three feet | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **lay down** | infinitive | Elephant *not said here* | | | | | off *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **help** *in a quote* | | | this carpenters | | | | | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/3/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/3/33/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/3/)