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title: At that moment that king, that betrayer of friends, seated on the ba… — The grateful elephant · tree and pragmatics
description: At that moment that king, that betrayer of friends, seated on the back of his gloriously adorned state elephant, accompanied by a large retinue, was making a rightwise circuit of the city. A sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree an
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# The grateful elephant, Opening, part 4, sentence 50

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At that moment that king, that betrayer of friends, seated on the back of his gloriously adorned state elephant, accompanied by a large retinue, was making a rightwise circuit of the city.

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**What happens:** seat, adorn, accompany, make · **To what, where:** friends, back, king, rightwise circuit

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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: 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:pg74064:4:54
# text = At that moment that king, that betrayer of friends, seated on the back of his gloriously adorned state elephant, accompanied by a large retinue, was making a rightwise circuit of the city.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	betrayer	betrayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
18	gloriously	gloriously	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
20	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	elephant	elephant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	retinue	retinue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	rightwise	rightwise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	circuit	circuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | participle |  | friends *not said here* |  | the back of king's adorned state elephant |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **adorn** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | gloriously *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **accompany** | participle |  | that king and that betrayer of friends *not said here* |  |  |  | by a large retinue | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by retinue=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | past · progressive |  | a rightwise circuit of the city |  |  | moment |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circuit=Product |

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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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