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title: I’ll tell my kinsfolk, have them fetch ruddy rice by the cart-load,… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: I’ll tell my kinsfolk, have them fetch ruddy rice by the cart-load, and give it to you. Who acts: I, crores. 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 26

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I’ll tell my kinsfolk, have them fetch ruddy rice by the cart-load, and give it to you.

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**Who acts:** I, crores · **What happens:** tell, have, fetch, give · **To what, where:** kinsfolk, crores, ruddy rice, rice, you · **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 (I, crores), 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:pg74064:4:28
# text = I’ll tell my kinsfolk, have them fetch ruddy rice by the cart-load, and give it to you.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’ll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	kinsfolk	kinsfolk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	fetch	fetch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	ruddy	ruddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	load	load	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | future | I | my kinsfolk |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent kinsfolk=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | crores *= crore* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fetch** | infinitive | crores *= crore* *not said here* | ruddy rice |  |  |  | by the cart load | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | infinitive | I *not said here* | rice | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient |

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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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