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title: Seeing the snake, the rat, and the parrot, he picked them up also, c… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing the snake, the rat, and the parrot, he picked them up also, carried them to his hermitage, and lighted a fire. Who acts: parrot. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 11

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Seeing the snake, the rat, and the parrot, he picked them up also, carried them to his hermitage, and lighted a fire.

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**Who acts:** parrot · **What happens:** see, pick up, carry, light · **To what, where:** snake, hermitage, fire

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This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot), 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:pg74064:4:13
# text = Seeing the snake, the rat, and the parrot, he picked them up also, carried them to his hermitage, and lighted a fire.
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hermitage	hermitage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | parrot *not said here* | the snake and the rat |  |  |  | the parrot *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pick up** | past | parrot | snake |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 3 | **carry** | past |  | snake |  | parrot's hermitage |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to hermitage=Destination |
| 4 | **light** | participle |  | a fire |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |

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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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