--- title: A few days after that, when all four had recovered their strength an… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics description: A few days after that, when all four had recovered their strength and vigor and the river-freshet had ceased, the snake bowed to the ascetic and said: “Reverend Sir, it is a great service you have done me. Who acts: freshet, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (freshet, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg74064:4:19 # text = A few days after that, when all four had recovered their strength and vigor and the river-freshet had ceased, the snake bowed to the ascetic and said: “Reverend Sir, it is a great service you have done me. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 when when SCONJ WRB _ 11 mark _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 recovered recover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 vigor vigor NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 freshet freshet NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 ceased cease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 26 bowed bow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 ascetic ascetic NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 33 “ " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Reverend Reverend PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 Sir Sir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 service service NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 appos _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl _ _ 45 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **recover** | past · perfect · passive | | all four | | | day | animals's strength and vigor and the snake *obj* | tree rules | | 2 | **cease** | past · perfect · passive | | the river freshet | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 3 | **bow** | participle | | the snake *not said here* | | | | to the ascetic | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ascetic=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | Reverend Sir *ccomp* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | freshet | a great service | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | a great service *not said here* | me | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/4/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/4/18/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg74064/4/)