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title: When he brought food also, he first gave it to those same animals, a… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: When he brought food also, he first gave it to those same animals, and afterwards offered fruits and other edibles to the prince. 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 14

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When he brought food also, he first gave it to those same animals, and afterwards offered fruits and other edibles to the prince.

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**Who acts:** weaker · **What happens:** bring, give, offer · **To what, where:** food, same animals, fruits, prince

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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:pg74064:4:16
# text = When he brought food also, he first gave it to those same animals, and afterwards offered fruits and other edibles to the prince.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
19	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	edibles	edible	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | weaker *= weak* | food |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | weaker *= weak* | food | that same animals |  |  | first *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to animal=Recipient |
| 3 | **offer** | participle | weaker *= weak* *not said here* | fruits and other edibles | the prince |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme to prince=Goal |

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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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