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title: “Have the carpenters paid for my keeping, your majesty.” — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: “Have the carpenters paid for my keeping, your majesty.” Who acts: you, carpenters. 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 58

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“Have the carpenters paid for my keeping, your majesty.”

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**Who acts:** you, carpenters · **What happens:** have, pay, keep · **To what, where:** majesty

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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 (you, 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:pg74064:3:60
# text = “Have the carpenters paid for my keeping, your majesty.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Have	have	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	carpenters	carpenter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pay** *in a quote* | past | the carpenters |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | gerund | the carpenters *= carpenter* | your majesty |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent majesty=Theme |

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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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