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title: At the mere word the snake came out, bowed to the Future Buddha, and… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: At the mere word the snake came out, bowed to the Future Buddha, and said: “Reverend Sir, in this place are forty crores of gold; carry them all out and take them with you!” Who acts: snake, Reverend Sir. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4, with its de
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 37

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At the mere word the snake came out, bowed to the Future Buddha, and said: “Reverend Sir, in this place are forty crores of gold; carry them all out and take them with you!”

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**Who acts:** snake, Reverend Sir · **What happens:** come out, bow, say, be, carry, take · **To what, where:** mere word, forty crores, snake · **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 (snake, Reverend Sir), 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:pg74064:4:40
# text = At the mere word the snake came out, bowed to the Future Buddha, and said: “Reverend Sir, in this place are forty crores of gold; carry them all out and take them with you!”
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	mere	mere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Future	Future	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Buddha	Buddha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Reverend	Reverend	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	crores	crore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	ccomp	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
32	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	all	all	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	out	out	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | the snake |  |  | the mere word |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **bow** | participle | the snake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the Future Buddha | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to buddha=Pivot |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the snake *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Reverend Sir | forty crores |  |  |  | of gold | tree rules |
| 5 | **carry** *in a quote* | infinitive | the snake *not said here* | snake |  |  |  | out *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | the snake *not said here* | snake |  |  |  | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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