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title: Likewise also the rat addressed the ascetic: “Stand in such-and-such… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: Likewise also the rat addressed the ascetic: “Stand in such-and-such a place and call me out, saying: ‘Rat!’” Who acts: rat. 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 23

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Likewise also the rat addressed the ascetic: “Stand in such-and-such a place and call me out, saying: ‘Rat!’”

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**Who acts:** rat · **What happens:** address, stand, call out, say · **To what, where:** ascetic, such place, Rat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (rat), 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:pg74064:4:25
# text = Likewise also the rat addressed the ascetic: “Stand in such-and-such a place and call me out, saying: ‘Rat!’”
1	Likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ascetic	ascetic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	18	det:predet	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Rat	Rat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **address** | past | the rat | the ascetic |  |  |  | likewise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** *in a quote* | infinitive | the rat *not said here* |  |  | such such place |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | the rat *not said here* |  | ascetic |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | gerund | the rat *not said here* | Rat |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rat=Topic |

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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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