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title: So first he warmed the bodies of the animals; then afterwards he war… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: So first he warmed the bodies of the animals; then afterwards he warmed the body of the royal prince and made him well too. Who acts: weaker. 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 13

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So first he warmed the bodies of the animals; then afterwards he warmed the body of the royal prince and made him well too.

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**Who acts:** weaker · **What happens:** warm, make · **To what, where:** bodies, body, weaker

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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 (weaker), 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:pg74064:4:15
# text = So first he warmed the bodies of the animals; then afterwards he warmed the body of the royal prince and made him well too.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	warmed	warm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	warmed	warm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
25	too	too	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warm** | past | weaker *= weak* | the bodies of the animals |  |  |  | first *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 2 | **warm** | past | weaker *= weak* | the body of the royal prince |  |  | then | afterwards *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent body=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past | weaker *= weak* *not said here* | weaker *= weak* |  |  |  | well *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=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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