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title: May this gift of tusks which I here bestow enable me to attain Omnis… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: May this gift of tusks which I here bestow enable me to attain Omniscience!” Who acts: gift, me. 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 148

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May this gift of tusks which I here bestow enable me to attain Omniscience!”

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**Who acts:** gift, me · **What happens:** enable, attain, gift · **To what, where:** me, Omniscience, tusks

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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 (gift, me), 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:pg74064:4:154
# text = May this gift of tusks which I here bestow enable me to attain Omniscience!”
1	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tusks	tusk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	bestow	bestow	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	enable	enable	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	attain	attain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	Omniscience	omniscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enable** | may | this gift of tusks | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **attain** | to-infinitive | me *not said here* | Omniscience |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent omniscience=Theme |
| 3 | **gift** |  |  | tusks |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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